Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columbia College had 227 students and several buildings at Madison Avenue and 49th Street. Aged 16, N. M. Butler, son of a New Jersey merchant, matriculated in 1878 to find only four of his classmates younger than himself. Slight, slick-haired young Butler busied himself winning prizes ("bun-yanking"), assimilating learning in enormous doses. He edited a college paper, Acta Columbiana, drafted the freshman class constitution. Politically-minded, oratorical, he was interested in everything but athletics. He was fit, though, set himself a private record by walking 45 mi. in 12 hr. on an Adirondack trip...
Tammany's political strength derives in large measure from oversized municipal payrolls, fat public contracts, personal relief for the faithful. Slim, slick little Mayor James John Walker, whose salary is $40,000, refused to economize. In 1929 the municipal budget was $520,000,000; in 1931, $605,000,000. For this year Mayor Walker put through a budget of $631,000,000 while his critics screamed themselves hoarse about his extravagance. Fortnight after New Year's the city treasury found it had only about $13,000,000 in cash on hand and close...
...second picture, "Ladies About Town," is excellent comedy. Lillian Tashman and Kay Francis are slick, svelte, and most acceptable as a pair of New York gold diggers. They are the best dressed women in Hollywood, and they appear in a vehicle that gives them every chance...
...were ex-champions but the pool addicts who watched them, banked closely under the shaded lamps of Allinger's Billiard Academy, knew that only two had a real chance. They were Erwin Rudolph, onetime Cleveland office boy, a reckless and brilliant player who won last year; and tall, slick-haired Ralph Greenleaf, the handsomest indoor athlete in the U.S., who started to play billiards in Monmouth, Ill., when he was seven, became city champion at twelve, finished fourth in his first world's championship four years later...
...Flat-faced, awkward King Levinsky Chicago heavyweight pugilist and onetime fishmonger, encouraged by the shrieks and squeals of his sister and manager Mrs. Lena Levy: a ten-round bout against slick-haired, skilful Tommy Loughran, who was three times knocked clown by Levinsky's right hand; in Manhattan...