Word: slickers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nobody in Denver ever saw a salesman who could match bluff Fred Ward, 43, a 200-lb. slicker who "could talk a mole out of his hole." He blew into town in 1939, soon landed a job selling Dodges. In two years, he was selling more Dodges than anybody else in the region, set up his own business, Fred Ward Inc., and started selling Hudsons. Soon he was distributor for Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico and Nebraska...
...Blue Veil, a much slicker job with an imposing cast, tells the sad, sad story of a determinedly selfless woman (Jane Wyman) who goes through life (in four episodes) mothering other people's children and hiding her sorrows behind the traditional blue veil of the old-world governess. The picture is well calculated to please the kind of audiences who confuse a good cry with a good movie...
...like Ohio's Senator Robert A. Toft, who try to cover their bald spots by combing up a fringe of hair, are known as "slicker-overers," charged a fellow Republican Senator. Said Colorado's Eugene D. Millikin, who is billiard-bald himself: "How can you get any place in politics if you deceive people...
...opening day, 3,000 people piled in for a look at the picture. Few disagreed with the experts' contention that it was worth what it cost. A product of Rembrandt's last, dirt-poor years, it glowed with a human warmth and depth that his earlier, slicker works lacked. The sitter's pensive, bloodshot eyes pierced the murk in which Rembrandt had muffled him; his melancholy, tight little smile reminded some visitors of the Mono, Lisa. Like her, the Young Man seemed to be silently inviting the spectator to enter the timeless, painted world in which...
...Slicker. In Far Rockaway, N.Y., Arthur Brown, arrested in a chain store 'after the salesgirl he had spoken to ran screaming for help, finally succeeded in convincing police that 1) he was a porter employed by the company and 2) he had told the girl he wanted to slick up, not stick up, the store...