Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other items on Americana's bill which you will probably like: the Doris Humphrey Dance Group's wave dance, in which 14 girls leap, slide, fall forward and backward, accompanied only by a cymbal and the swish of their bodies against a slick blue floor; the same girls in an or- giastic interpretation of an oldtime Shaker meeting; a marionet show in which Alfred Emanuel Smith, Herbert Hoover and John Davison Rockefeller jig together with a chorus of little oil cans. Tunes: "Wouldja for a Big Red Apple?", "You're Not Pretty But You're Mine...
...endorsing each other's reputable candidates for the bench. Last week mousey little John Francis Curry. Tammany's boss, summoned his followers to the Wigwam to prepare a Supreme Court slate for the Manhattan-Bronx district. First nominated was Aron Steuer. 33-year-old son of Max Steuer, slick crook-defender and smart Tammany tactician. Then up rose John McNaboe, a Demo-cratic State Senator who had fought tooth & nail against the investigation of Tammany scandals by the legislative committee of which he was a minority member (TIME, April...
...Night Club Lady (Columbia). Scheduled for last week at Manhattan's Paramount Theatre was Night Mayor, patterned after New York's slick James J. ("Jimmy") Walker who resigned last week. It was suppressed, and The Night Club Lady, a murder mystery in which all the suspects have a motive for killing the victim, substituted. Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt (Adolphe Menjou) is a wrestling devotee who constantly demonstrates new holds to his drunken friend Tony (Skeets Gallagher). Learning that Lola Carewe (Mayo Methot), a blackmailing night club hostess, has had her life threatened, he takes Tony and six detectives...
...name of Fred G. Bonfils at anyone who knows Denver or the Denver Post and that person's mind will instantly register such adjectives as "handsome," "slick," "swaggering," "noisy," "audacious," "crafty," "lusty," "flamboyant," "hot-tempered." Other words, complimentary or vituperative, might occur to commentators biased one way or the other. For instance the Scripps-Howard Express (now the Rocky Mountain News) six years ago chose these brands for Publisher Bonfils and his Post: "shame," "disgrace," "bandit," "brigand." "lawless," "bunco," "scaly monstrosity," "mountebank," "... a blackmailing, blackguarding, nauseaus (sic) sheet which stinks to high heaven and which is the shame...
...affair would have gone hard with him had not District Attorney Welden made an enemy of able, weasly Lawyer Hopkinson. The latter, hoping to discredit the District Attorney, took Benson's case, presented it in court as an issue between Vice and Respectability. With luck, perjured witnesses and slick manipulation Benson was acquitted. Benson might have gone unpunished to his grave had not the Furies taken a hand in hounding him. Human avengers came to his hideout too late, but had the workman-like satisfaction of chucking what was left of him into the Five Points rat-pit. Author...