Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Slim as a lancet, her trim superstructure melting into as slick an air-flow contour as any Hollywood futurist ever conceived, the 112-foot triple-screw yacht Q. E. D. poised one afternoon last week ready to glide down her skids for a maiden wetting in the ebbing waters of Manhattan's malodorous Harlem River. Beneath the concave bows of this fuselage-shaped ship stood her owner and chief designer, round, rubicund Hollander Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, an old hand at aircrafting, a brand-new hand at shipbuilding...
...Bible Bill's" answer to this legal defeat was his spirited invasion of Saskatchewan. Moving East, with his slick radio voice, his politico-religious antics, his lessons on finance & economy, "Bible Bill" drew such huge crowds wherever he moved that he gave faraway orthodox Ottawa the scare of its life. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberal Government moved their big guns to Regina, Saskatoon, many a smaller community. A Cabinet official chose a favorable moment in tiny Esterhazy to announce that during the present session of Parliament a $50,000,000 Dominion housing scheme would...
...cornerstone of what he promised would eventually be the world's largest automobile factory. Perched there he spoke with the pride and feeling of an automobile salesman on the subject of Germany's new Strength-through-Joy (Kraft durch Freude) flivver. Within easy pointing distance were three slick models for the new 65-miles-per-hour, $396 Volkswagen, which Der Führer expects will one day be as much a part of every German's life as an Ersatz sausage in every pot. "This streamlined four-seater," barked the Fuhrer, "is a mechanical marvel...
Small behind his vast bench in Manhattan's slick new U. S. courthouse, Federal Judge Francis Gordon Caffey last week peered down upon an important gathering. There was grey-haired Arthur Vining Davis, for 29 years president or chairman of huge Aluminum Co. of America. There was stocky Thurman Wesley Arnold, law professor lately made Assistant Attorney General in charge of trustbusting. Conferring occasionally with Mr. Davis was redhaired, big-boned William Watson Smith, Alcoa's trial lawyer for some 25 years. Conferring occasionally with Mr. Arnold was spry, young Walter Lyman Rice, only ten years...
...final draft proposed last fortnight by the companies' lawyers had so many complicated provisions that the jittery independents thought it was designed to give them even less business than usual. Negotiations broke off. Thurman Arnold had the criminal case reopened before a grand jury in Judge Thomas W. Slick's court at South Bend...