Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wife of slick, shrewd Lawyer Max D. Steuer, who prosecuted the Bank of U. S. officials. She had an account of $54,117.45 in the bank. The day before the bank closed, she drew this out, but forgot the $.45. Widespread is the story that an official almost talked Mrs. Steuer out of withdrawing her account, that she telephoned her doubts to her husband, who replied: "Listen, Bertha, did you go to the bank to hear conversation or to get out your money...
Florenz Ziegfeld, whose slick grey hair is growing thinner as his piquant, 44-year-old second wife (Billie Burke) passes on to join his svelte first (Anna Held) in Broadway's legend of beauty, knows what nostalgia is. He is one of the few gentlemen of his race and profession who can capitalize nostalgia with finesse and good taste...
...Black Camel (Fox) is an amusing mystery story in which the corpse is that of a cinemactress, the scene Hawaii, the detective celebrated Charlie Chan, the suspects as follows: a patently fake male fortuneteller, a slick actor in a dinner coat, a pretty little girl who steals an emerald ring, a butler who does not know his place, a young millionaire who drives a roadster and is anxious to get out of town, a maid servant, a man who mumbles indignantly, a beachcombing artist with sneering enunciation, a tough blonde who incites Detective Chan to aphorism. After several aphorisms (sample...
...want to read a good imitation of a serious novel, try this one. It has many earmarks of what passes for worth; a pioneer panorama, noble savages, slick Manhattanites and Chicagoans, "frankness," a (pseudo) devil-may-care style. Author Tiffany Thayer knows how to butter his bread, knows many a reader will put up with oleomargarine if it is spread thick enough...
Reginald Grenville Eves, once known as a protege of that bearded New Englander John Singer Sargent, now famed as a portraitist, submitted three slick and shiny pictures. They were instantly accepted, for Reginald Eves was up for election as an Academician. A few days later long-suffering Sir William Llewellyn discovered that they were actually what many critics have called most Academy portraits: colored photographs. Sly Reginald had pasted tissue paper enlargements on canvas, colored them with oil paint. This was certainly not cricket! The pictures were thrown out, Reginald Eves was blackballed. Said Artist Eves...