Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prix de Rome. From 1916 to 1925 he was too busy to hold a one-man show, to act Bohemian. He won nearly every U. S. prize for sculpture, every commission he competed for. He speckled the U. S. with his expensive marbles and bronzes, every one slick as a new dime. Hard work cast him like one of his bronzes into a chunky man with a bullet head and a military mustache. He joined the Social Register, Manhattan's Century and Coffee House Clubs. Earning some $60,000 a year, he lived in solid style. He worked...
...story that it was possible to conceive." Miss Hawkins produced "Her Terrible Mistake, by Lottie Perkins." It told how "Mary Jane Smith ... a very pretty girl of 17 . . . fell devinely in love with a very nice fellow who was a machinic by the name of Jack Berry." A slick city stranger comes to town, is about to seduce Mary Jane when her "fionce" exposes him as "a villian in sheeps clothing ... a traveling salesman." "O Jack my Hero, I am so glad you saved me from...
...simple episode. Banker Mitchell had need of no ordinary lawyer. He had already advised with such famed firms as Cravath, Degers-dorff, Swaine & Wood and Davis. Polk. Wardell, Gardiner & Reed. But even the most high-powered Manhattan legal talent agreed that there was only one thing to do: get slick little Crook-Defender Max D. Steuer, "greatest trial lawyer of our time." A brilliant, inconspicuous, hawk-faced Austrian Jew, Max Steuer has defended George Graham Rice, tireless stock swindler; Maurice Connolly, Queens sewer grafter. Harry Daugherty, boss of the Ohio Gang: Max ("Boo Boo") Hoff, Philadelphia underworld chief...
Last week Colorado gasped and gasped. Affixed to the shiny blue Packard of slick Publisher Bonfils, onetime river gambler, was this year's license...
Berlin's streets are paved with smooth asphalt which becomes eel-slick in wet weather. The problem of slippery asphalt is more acute in Berlin than in most cities for though the city is as far north as Hudson Bay, little snow falls there. Rainy weather is normal weather from November through March...