Word: sleekly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foldboat is an Americanization of the German "flatboot" or collapsible rubber kayak, of which there are hundreds of thousands in Europe. Now, however, the foldboat seems to be one of the few German importations genuinely welcome in this country. Mr. Kissner, a pioneer in the manufacture of these sleek "downhill yachts," has gathered together a valuable storehouse of information on the technical and geographical aspects of this speedier form of canoeing. It is altogether necessary for already-enthusiastic fold-boaters, and is likely to make many new converts to the sport...
When Phil Charig of this musical set asked him to drive to California one day, Grant went along for the ride, stayed to work five years for Paramount. As a dark, sleek, bedimpled leading man, Cinemactor Grant made $500 a week, but he did not make much headway in pictures. Says he: "They had a lot of leading men over there with dark hair and a set of teeth like me, and they couldn't be buying stories for each of us. . . ." When his contract with Paramount expired, Grant struck out for himself, since then has averaged three...
...hand through her hair and recabled: "Well, for example, in France nobody ever kills anyone he doesn't know." An American in Paris is a selection of the best of her New Yorker and Vanity Fair sketches. Each a mosaic of tidbits culled from hundreds of informants, each sleek with refined comedy, these reports and profiles are a valuable dossier on the very highest life of the past 20 years...
...long, sleek care begin to draw up in front of Brattle Hall. Sometimes a chauffeur opens the door: sometimes an undergraduate whose sloppy reversible contrasts oddly with his white starched shirt front and pearl studs. The girl is in shimmering silk: it is the very latest thing, the very best. For this is the night, you know. The third in the Brattle Hall series for sub-debs...
...hero, is an attendant at a group of tourist cabins, white Lucy, the heroine, is an unhappy girl who lives nearby with an aunt whom she tries not to hate. To these people come first the shared experience of love, and later the problem of murder. A sleek and unctuons traveler tries in procuring him a girl, and then makes advances to Lucy. Ray unintentionally kills him, hides the body and attempts to decide how to tell Lucy of his crime. The rest of the book--more than half--is concerned with the growing breach between the lovers, caused...