Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pages about clothes lay the explanation of Esquire's origin. Two years ago, the publishers of Esquire started Apparel Arts, a slick quarterly modeled on FORTUNE, to serve as an advertising medium for clothes wholesalers. Retailers, who left copies of Apparel Arts ($1.50 each) lying about, found that their customers took them home. The smart publishers put out another quarterly, Apparel Arts, Fabrics & Fashions, which was circulated among retailers who distributed it to their good customers. It illustrated colored pictures of men's fashions with glued-in swatches of the actual materials used in the suits, ties, handkerchiefs...
...pastime is throwing stones through the windows of a Chinese laundry. Steve Brodie (George Raft ) is a different type of Bowery sport, a sleek, rakish gambling man, envious of Connors' prestige. When Connors befriends a respectable girl (Fay Wray) to the extent of letting her be his cook, slick Brodie promptly makes her his fiancée. When Connors gives little Swipes a spanking which causes him to run away, Brodie gives him a home. Still, Steve Brodie has no saloon. When two brewers offer to give him one if he can acquire a following, he thinks...
...Vacationing on Catalina Island, School-Teacher Hildegard Withers follows her hunch about death in an airplane. Without Oscar Piper by her side, with a casual police and an earthquake to hinder, Miss Withers emerges triumphant. THE CASE OF THE SULKY GIRL-Erie Stanley Gardner-Morrow ($2). Perry Mason, slick lawyer, faces a charge of conspiracy in murder to bring about a show-down in court. HANGMAN'S HOLIDAY-Dorothy L. Sayers-Harcourt, Brace ($2). A dozen stories, some about Lord Peter Wimsey; some about Montague Egg, traveling salesman full of apt saws; some about neither. THE DEAD PARROT-Michael...
Considerably less evanescent than the play by Samuel N. Behrman in which, performing as Sigrift, Critic Alexander Woollcott scored a sedentary success, Brief Moment emerges in the cinema as a bright investigation of small problems, slick, chipper and reasonably entertaining. Most inevitable shot: Owsley, inveterate cad of the films, sneering at Abby across his cocktail glass...
Like almost every hero in the cinema, Bruce Foster finds time, while building up his fortunes, for an elaborate sex life. First he enjoys a liaison with an English artist (Elizabeth Allen), to whom he explains his theory that marriage is a nuisance. Next he gets engaged to a slick and silvery cosmeticist (Doris Kenyon) until she grows too arduously possessive. When he breaks their engagement, the cosmeticist throws herself out a window and Bruce Foster goes back to his artist, who finds him in the speakeasy where he started. Somehow, the suicide of his fiancee has filled him with...