Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a year of skunk-flushing in New York City's political woods, Counsel Samuel Seabury of the Legislature's investigation into municipal corruption last week bayed resoundingly on the trail of a fox. Never before had the chase come so close to slick little Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker...
Half a century later the nations gathered beneath the mirrors to end all war and save all democracy. There was a slick Italian, a leonine Englishman a suave and bitter Frenchman. And there was too a handsome American who wrote beautiful English. Into this gathering he game with careful, scholarly ideals of self determination, and nationality, and a League of Nations to preserve the peace of Europe...
Foreign Affairs (by Paul Hervey Fox & George Tilton; Kamsler & Fuller, producers). A great many people admire the slick urbanity of Osgood Perkins; many more are titillated by the romantic comedy of Henry Hull; others like to watch Dorothy Gish purse her mouth. Foreign Affairs, with all three of these favorites in it, should therefore afford capital fun to playgoers in considerable numbers...
...Tommy, N. P. Farquhar '32 and S. C. Dorman '33, recognize as their big "moment". A chorus of biddies sing appropriate versions of well known songs, "Servant Girls Scrub", and "Old Charles River", were ones we remembered. The conflict in the plot takes the form of a slick-haired product of the most polished clique of society, who soon becomes engaged to the girl, J. H. Pearson '32. This occurs much to the operatic dismay of the hero, P. S. Carter '34, who deplores the situation in "Love is the Blues". A polo game, in which he scores winning tallies...
...familiar sawed-off figure of Abie with his slick black hair, big nose, thick lips and mustache, cigaret and smoke rings, did not appear in the Graphic's strip. Instead there was this lettered dialog issuing from the transom of a door labelled "Z. Eppess. Plastic Surgeon...