Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convinced am I that I'll bet a dollar to a slug that you have seen more than one well come in; you know what a hell of a racket three million feet of gas will make coming out of 2" tubing; and just how damn slick a rig floor can get after the first few barrels of Big Injun crude has squirted up and hit the crown pulley and is now raining down through the rig like an April cloud burst. . . . JIM VANDERGRIFT...
Conversation at Midnight brings together a priest, an artist, a writer of advertising copy, a Communist poet, a rich broker, a Liberal dilettant and a slick magazine writer for after-dinner dialog in verse. Poet Millay, who once acted at Vassar and Provincetown, asks her readers to think of her Conversation in terms of the theatre, but she appends an index of first lines so that segments may be read as single poems. Readers will immediately observe 1) that the most feminine living poet has attempted not one but several distinct masculine idioms, with considerable charm but only here...
...portion of its U. S. public would welcome, something more than tradepapers, highbrow snippets and vulgar fan magazines, has long seemed obvious. This week on U. S. newsstands appeared 52,000 copies of the first substantial effort to supply this demand. It was Cinema Arts, a FORTUNE-sized, 50?, slick-paper magazine, published by Albert Griffith-Grey, younger brother of the oldtime cinema director, David Wark Griffith...
...Senator Wheeler the "option" was a "slick scheme" by which the Vans avoided having to get ICC's approval of C. & E. I.'s purchase until it was too late for ICC to act. On the stand, C. & O.'s old Chairman Herbert Fitzpatrick could only reply that it had been "necessary to operate that way at the time." Snorted the incensed Senator: "If the Interstate Commerce Commission lets the railroads get away with this kind of deal, we ought to have some new commissioners down there...
Best dances: Astaire solo in a mechanistic routine in the ship's engine room; Astaire & Rogers plus a masked chorus from which she is almost indistinguishable; Astaire & Rogers on roller skates in Central Park. Best tunes in the slick George & Ira Gershwin score: They All Laughed, They Can't Take That Away From Me, Let's Call The Whole Thing...