Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...early city's friendly and explosive vulgarity still pains finical Denverites in dark, slick Frederick Bonfils' incredibly blatant Denver Post. Publisher Bonfils, onetime river gambler, in whose veins runs Latin blood (some say a Bonaparte strain from Corsica), still personifies Denver's oldtime dash and bravado. His late partner, H. H. Tammen, onetime bartender, personified its humor. To him is credited the inscription over the Post's door, "O Justice! When Expelled from All Other Habitations Make This Thy Dwelling Place." The Post has said of Denver "Everything that comes out of the ground is just a little bit sweeter...
Last week in Albany Governor Roosevelt was presented with a hard political nut, a 27,000-word document wherein slick little James John ("Jimmy") Walker hotly defended his right to remain Mayor of New York. Replying to the ouster charges filed last June by Counsel Samuel Seabury of the legislative committee investigating Tammany corruption (TIME, June 13 et ante), Mayor Walker opened his defense with an attack. He charged that Republicans had instigated the inquiry "to divert public attention from the dreadful condition of affairs throughout the nation." He accused Mr. Seabury of "malice, slander, rancorous ill-will," of conducting...
...break his autocracy three rebel members of Local 306 went to court, sought an injunction restraining President Kaplan from directing its affairs. His henchmen thereupon hired Lawyer Max D. Steuer, slick crook defender, to represent him and the other indicted officers. To pay the Steuer fee ($25,000) the local voted an assessment of $21 on each of its 1,200 members. Last week in Manhattan eight rebels sought another injunction to nullify the local's assessment, make Sam Kaplan pay his own lawyer's bill...
...aged 20, Gene Sarazen was so pleased that he carried the big championship cup everywhere he went and once, when the top fell off, had to jump out of a taxi to get it. Neat, slick, sunburned, Sarazen was just as pleased last week. When he got a telephone call from Johnny Farrell, U. S. Open champion in 1928, he said: "Oh, boy, am I excited! . . . How are they taking it in New York?" Two days later, carrying the British Open Cup which he said he would defend next year, Sarazen sailed for the U. S. to play...
Responding to this long-awaited invitation in the New York County Court House last week, the slick incumbent of "the third biggest job in the U. S." glanced alertly about him to orient friend & foe, shot his broad, lopsided campaign smile, sat down jauntily to defend himself against gravest suspicions of his official conduct. As he looked around him in the packed, hot chamber, Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker could see friends aplenty: Lawyer Dudley Field Malone, Police Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney's wife, a host of rowdy Tammanyites and the hard-headed Democratic minority of the Legislative investigation...