Word: slickers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first, gaunt, his beard (which makes him look so much like Brig.-Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt) untrimmed. his clothes torn and soiled. Yet he held his shoulders square, marched with head high past the clicking cameras. Fat old Carlos Mendieta. one eye swollen shut, slumped behind him, a dirty yellow slicker drooping from his shoulders, a shapeless felt hat squashed on his head. Just as he approached the waiting automobile he looked up with bleary eyes and delivered himself of one complete, soul-satisfying expletive. "Carrrajo!" swore Colonel Mendieta and drove off to jail...
...business. Questioned by caustic Representative Frank R. Reid of Illinois, an intervener in the case, about the Delaware case, Mr. Aylesworth said: "I know very little about it. I wouldn't know a vacuum tube from an inner tube. I'm a broadcaster." Observed Representative Reid: "You're a slicker, too." Retorted Broadcaster Aylesworth: "Well, it's something to be called a slicker by a Congressman...
...sail Enterprise. He smokes a pipe, seldom drinks. On Vara, in Newport, he does calesthenics on deck in pajamas. After breakfast he goes aboard Enterprise, wearing a business suit and a felt hat. to supervise the daily tinkering with the rigging. In the rain he wears a yellow slicker, but often sails the big yacht in shirtsleeves. When there is the slightest imperfection in the way the boat is handled in practice he puts about and goes through the maneuver over again. He speaks quietly to the crew and addresses his sailing master as "Mr." He sails a boat hard...