Word: sleekly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week at the Diamond Horseshoe, Mae Murray again began dancing the Merry Widow waltz, with Georges Fontana of the sleek '20s dancing team of Moss & Fontana. The featherweight toast of the 1908 Follies has long since moved into the middleweight division, but as she swooped, swirled and was flung through the air the house came down, and Billy Rose knew that he had a waltzing hit and the nostalgic smash of his career...
...Next day sleek "Roarin' Bob" Reynolds of North Carolina took the floor, held forth for two and a half hours of teary, sob-voiced argument for isolation. Said Senator Reynolds: Hitler is no more of a menace to the U. S. than Napoleon was in 1808. He insisted that the bill had nothing to do with the defense of the U. S., proposed sarcastically that its title should be changed to: "A Bill for the Defense of the British Empire at the Expense of the Lives of American Men and at the Expense of the American Taxpayer...
...diplomacy in Nazi-networked Bulgaria last week was hardly on the sleek side. The U. S. Minister to Bulgaria is husky, 220-lb. George Howard Earle. A deceptively sleepy-looking native of Philadelphia's archconservative "Main Line," in 1932 he shocked his background by loudly turning New Dealer, shocked it further in 1935 by becoming the New Deal's liberal Governor of Pennsylvania...
...King of Egypt is young, flabby, willful. At night, when he cannot sleep, he loves to set off the air-raid alarm, watch his courtiers scurry to the shelter in their night clothes. He eats pounds of chocolates daily. He drives big, sleek, red and green cars-15 Packards and ten Rolls-Royces-and steers them, according to his chauffeurs, better than anybody in Egypt. He is even surer of himself when running his country's affairs...
...Lost his right-hand stenographer, sleek, black-haired, punctilious Henry M. Kannee, 40, his shorthand-man since Sept. 12, 1932. Scrupulous Henry, who worships F. D. R., left behind in the White House a file-full of his stenographer's notebooks, fat with more than nine years of secrets; left with the high regard of White House reporters, who were eternally grateful to him for many things but especially one-the night of Feb. 15, 1933, at the Miami Bay Front Park when Giuseppe Zangara shot at Franklin Roosevelt, fatally wounded Chicago's Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak instead...