Word: slicked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...virtues, civic or otherwise, are the badge of the hay-stacks: that it is big enough and powerful enough and well heeled enough and enough of a wise guy to go to the devil more times than anybody else and still survive to take pride in the achievement. The slick ness and unctuousness of Mayor Hylan, one may presume, appeal to New York as so cordially representative of its own shrewdness and unmorality as to make their exaltation through him a fitting rebuke to more common sense and the weakness for decency...