Word: sleeking
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...East Side. One is studious while the other shoots craps. Years later the student has become district attorney, the crapshooter a top-money gambler. If Jim Wade (William Powell) is straight as a die, Blackie Gallagher (Clark Gable) is crooked as his own dice. Gallagher's sleek mistress (Myrna Loy) loves him honestly, leaves him when he refuses to make her an honest woman. In Harlem's Cotton Club she falls in love with District Attorney Wade, is soon married...
...campaign. The public was solicited but not informed of the needed guarantee. At an expensive opera ball staged to represent the Court at Fontainebleau in the reign of Louis XV, Soprano Lucrezia Bori came out as Mlle Cleophile de L'Opera, curtsied to such royal impersonators as sleek Artist Boutet de Monvel (King Louis) and Mrs. Vincent Astor (Austria's Maria Theresa), dramatically declared that the Metropolitan was saved...
...mortal head wound crumpled Larry Cappo, sleek little gangster, onetime prizefighter, night-club headwaiter, in the back of a wrecked sedan...
...lounge of Manhattan's Phi Gamma Delta Club last week newshawks found a sleek-haired young man who was once the second most important man in Peru. Straining a whiskey-&-soda through his enormous teeth, Juan Leguia told a colorful story of three years' political imprisonment, and unwittingly revealed to his listeners why there are so many revolutions in Latin America...
...William Meringer, whose ticket on Golden Miller was worth $150,000. She got her ticket, she said, from her Austrian husband. William Meringer told an unlikely story of how he had come by it. Into the Bronx restaurant where he worked as chef there had walked one evening a sleek fat man who had called for a dish of hasenpfeffer, Chef Meringer's specialty.* After he had eaten three plates of it, he sent for the cook, gave him the sweepstakes ticket for a reward. Chef Meringer said he planned to send his son William to college. In Baltimore...