Word: slicked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...floor is absolutely slick--the music just divine...
...that finally prevailed, defeated a bill, passed by the Assembly, to rip the state wide open again for gamblers able to pay license fees of $1,000 per table. The same assembly and senate were caught napping-or so they said-in the small hours before adjournment, by a slick lobby of lawyers and hotelmen, who got a committee to change "six months" to "three months" in that phrase of the Nevada divorce statute which prescribes how long divorce-hunters must reside in Nevada. Irate legislators who snored through the reading of the new bill, which both houses passed within...
...humanity that suddenly began streaming from nowhere out into the desert after the Hortons and young Traynor. Stumbling mules wrenched along in makeshift harness. Automobiles of every make, rusty and knocking, shiny and squeaky, dodged and swerved along the crowded track. Derby hats, caps, fedoras and sombreros rolled by. Slick city men talked loudly. Rough desert men looked grim. The Bad Lands that the Indians call Malapai woke up as they had not awakened since Jim Butler's mule kicked open the silver vein that made Tonopah in 1900. They rattled and rumbled for 40 miles, to Weepah...
...Fictional character; "slick" Yankee trader...
Century Ribbon Mills-miles of slick ribbons coil out of looms-loss...