Word: sleekness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heavy fog over Germany. The nation which produced Goethe and Goebbels, great cultural triumphs and human incinerators, has always produced eerie contrasts. Today, these contrasts seem to have taken physical shape. The face of Germany is hideously scarred-and yet, almost every where, one sees another face which is sleek and smooth...
...told than '46 Album will be ready by this June--just three years after it was due, just in time for the class reunion. We are told by the '47-'48 book's staff that their volume will be kingsized, bound in fine old leather, printed on sleek paper--but we haven't seen either of these tomes...
Today's card features five claiming races, two $1400 purses, and The Inaugural Handicap worth a tidy $2500. A sleek filly named Lawless Miss is favored to cop the branny feedbag and present the above-mentioned tidy sum to lucky G. Y. Booker. She is a homobred daughter of Gallahadion...
Like many a Broadway and Hollywood contemporary, Actor Kawarasaki had a tickling Marxian social conscience. He organized a new Kabuki troupe called the Zenshinza (Forward-Looking Theater), set up shop in a sleek, modern playhouse outside Tokyo, defied tradition by hiring women actors to play female parts and began mixing Western dramas with the Japanese classics. When V-J brought democracy officially to Japan, Democrat Kawarasaki was ready with a full-fledged production of John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln (TIME...
...Oriental artists caught best the cat's agile and delicate movement and velvet-coated strength. British Cinemactor and Cat-lover James Mason had designed some prints showing impressionistic Siamese marching across rayon textile. American Sculptor William Zorach and French Painter Pablo Picasso contributed masterly and unsentimental portraits of sleek, well-fed soth Century tabbies...