Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Slick was a frenzied wildcatter from Pennsylvania whose boomtime oil financing became the wonder of the Southwest. He held lawyers, geologists and physicians in equal scorn and died of overwork in 1930, bequeathing his name to two oil fields, a withered oil town and Slick-Urschel Oil Co. In Oklahoma last fortnight the name Slick disappeared from the oil business through a merger of Slick-Urschel with the new Transwestern Oil of Oklahoma...
...After 146 hours, three teams had circled the track 24,997 times and the winners had to be decided on points awarded for the sprints-races within a race-that punctuate the six-day marathon in series of ten, five times each day. Winners were blond Jimmy Walthour and slick-haired Al Crossley, who had lapped the field in the last hour, held a point lead piled up earlier by winning the sprint that ended the race. While the crowd of 16,000 screamed themselves hoarse, Walthour & Crossley pedaled around the track once more, each balancing on his handlebars...
...woman who wants to take him to a party at Southampton: "I am 32, my dear. My dancing days are over." If imperturbable, emaciated, 45-year-old Mr. Webb's dancing days are indeed over, it will be a bitter blow to those who recall with pleasure his slick gyrations in Sunny, Three's A Crowd, Flying Colors, As Thousands Cheer. In the case of And Stars Remain, however, the revue's loss is definitely the drama's gain, for Webb has the best Oxford accent that ever came out of Indianapolis, the most ingratiating stage...
...epoch making work, refused to leave their books even to attend dances with girls who travelled all the way from Northampton or Poughkeepsic for the occasion. A certain non-resident student is reported to have worn out seven pairs or pants in his Senior year on Widener's slick seats. On the other hand tradition speaks of other graduates who, in four years attendance at Harvard College spent a total of not more than fifteen of the many months in Cambridge...
...scrubbing floors; she certainly deserves the nod over Madame X, who forfeited her own flesh and blood. The rating of Valiant is the Word for Carrie against other noble-prostitute pictures is equally favorable. Adapted from Barry Benefield's novel, astutely directed by Wesley Ruggles, it is a slick, high-powered old-school tearjerker, guaranteed to please exhibitors by making their patrons miserable. Typical shot: Carrie, on the point of a business foray into Times Square, restrained by the squeaky voice of little Lady, asking what...