Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...already "liquidated" the only two dangerous Russians) and dictated his terms. When they understood his amazing proposition they scurried to sign. So would you have done. Economists may laugh at Tycoon Rand's slick scheme, but the plain man will admit it makes a good Oppenheim yarn. The Author. Edward Phillips Oppenheim, 64, tycoonish-looking himself, writes stories "because, if I left them on my brain, where they are endlessly effervescing, I would be subject to a sort of mental in digestion." He published his first story at 18, his first novel at 20. He never plots...
Frisco Land. One of the executors of the properties of the late Thomas B. Slick, "King of Wildcatters," is his widow, daughter of a vice president of St. Louis-San Francisco Railway. Last week on land belonging to the railroad, and on which is located a roundhouse, the Slick interests brought in a well yielding 50,000 bbl. of oil and 4,000,000,000 cu. ft. of gas daily...
Publicity attending the Van Rensselaer Lowestoft fraud suddenly launched upon newspapers and police stations disclosures of other art swindles from institutions and individuals previously too embarrassed to admit their gullibility. With some of these the slick team of Doran, Saunders & Cooke was directly connected, others were the work of rival tricksters...
...emphatic in declaring that we are not interested in promoting the happiness of that wretched group whose only criterion of excellence in wine is the violence of its 'kick.' Let them ride white mule to maudlin joys. We have nothing to offer them." Vintner-Professor Rose, slick-haired, mundane, long famed among his friends in New Haven for the excellence of his cellar, has set down a valuable store of good, plain advice on the preparation and care of dry red wines, dry white wines, live wines...
Died. Thomas B. Slick, 47, famed oil wildcatter, "richest independent operator in the world"; of a cerebral hemorrhage, at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore where he had been since June 27. Born in Clarion, Pa., he went in 1906 to the Indian Territory, after serving apprentice- ship as driller, muleskinner, roustabout in the oilfields of Illinois. In 1913 he sold out his holdings in Illinois for $2,500,000; last year his Southwestern holdings brought him $45,000,000 from Prairie Oil & Gas. During his funeral in faraway Clarion, all drilling and pumping operations in the Oklahoma City oilfield were stilled...