Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cried one. "Which is Urschel?" No one answered. "Well, come along, we'll take both of you," he said. An hour later the kidnappers dumped Jarrett, unscathed, out of their car ten miles from town, sped away with Urschel. Mrs. Urschel, rich widow of the late Thomas B. Slick, "king of oil wildcatters" whose fortune once exceeded $75,000,000, arranged to pay ransom as soon as contact was established with the kidnappers...
...match, it became clearer still. Perry won the first set, as his teammate had done, 6-1. Allison made him work in the second and at 4-5 on his own serve pulled out a game that went to deuce eight times. It was Allison's last threat. Slick, black-haired Perry, playing a fast, confident game, used whistling cross-court drives that caught Allison crouching flat-footed at the wrong side of the court to run out the set and the next one-in which Allison crept up bravely but forlornly from...
...Tribune Golden Gloves learn in 1920,. Like many Golden Gloves boxers, he promptly turned professional. Unlike most, he won his fights. Last week's was his 23rd victory in a row. All Hebrew lightweights who know how to execute a simple feint are automatically compared with Benny Leonard. Slick little Ross may turn out to justify the analogy better than his predecessors-Sid Terris, Ruby Goldstein, Al Singer-if, as he promised to do last week, he gives Canzoneri, who had held the title for three years, a return match next autumn. Far more uncertain than the light weight...
Other Points- The slick tongue which usually goes with pernicious anemia often roughens up, if the patient absorbs plenty of Vitamin B, said Drs. William Skainline Middleton and Adolph Hutter of Madison, Wis. Eruptions of the soles and palms often are due to infected teeth, tonsils, ulcer or other disease of the digestive tract, observed Dr. George Clinton Andrews Jr. & associates of Manhattan. A normal adult has very nearly 1/20 of an ounce of sand in his lungs. Dr. William Duncan McNatty of Chicago calculated. A coal miner's lungs contain about 1/6 oz., a zinc miner...
...words were exciting, galvanic. Accountant Russell T. Sherwood, so-called "fiscal agent" of slick Ex-Mayor Jimmy Walker, had run away two years ago when a legislative committee wanted to ask him who actually owned the $1,000,000 which allegedly had passed through his bank and brokerage accounts. His was the testimony, never obtained which would definitely have nailed down the corruption case against Walker, or quashed it. Shortly after skipping town Sherwood turned up briefly in Mexico City with a new wife. Since then, no trace. The Press, which takes enormous pride in finding fugitives when authorities fail...