Word: slicker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...script, are never in doubt, and the flagrant distortion of their qualities and motives may therefore seem all the more reprehensible to moviegoers who hold these serious and important men in memory. Mencken, for example, is portrayed by Gene Kelly as a lip-curling, hat-tilting city-room slicker who talks the sort of typewritten tarradiddle that does less than justice to the rich, organic vocabulary of the author of The American Language...
...black with death on coral beaches, Oklahoma! opened on Broadway, and Hammerstein's words carried across the world the picture of a beautiful morning, "a bright golden haze on the meadow." Just then, many people everywhere were grateful for the reminder that such a thing existed. In a slicker mood, he could be both cute and funny. As the Hammerstein June busts out all over...
...Spike Jones Show (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). The City Slicker with Mrs. Jones (Singer Helen Grayco...