Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Life on the Riviera is a curious blend of pastimes such as sunbathing and tennis which build up the human system, and occupations such as tippling and gambling which do not. By far the most spectacular figures which move in the latter sphere are the mysterious group of slick little sloe-eyed men known as the Greek Syndicate...
Close contests in the Democratic lists threw final nominations over into the runoff. Thomas Pryor Gore, blind onetime (1907-21) Senator, sought his old seat "to see if a man can still be elected to the Senate on $1,000." Without money or managers but with a tongue slick with political sarcasm, he ran nip & tuck with Charles J. Wrightsman, wealthy Tulsa oilman, for the Democratic Senatorial nomination, while three onetime Oklahoma Governors trailed in the ruck...
Vermonters do not mix well with Virginians. Tall, sturdy, slow-but-sure North Chinamen despise and are despised by South Chinamen, small, nimble, slick. Last week China resumed on a grand scale her civil war between North and South. It has been dragging on, in one form or another, ever since the Dragon Throne was upset by the revolution of 1911. Observers noted that this time the battle is between forces headed by the four best men of North, and South...
...hard, slick ice of many Canadian cities the curlers use irons, but in Winnipeg, as in Edinburgh and other conservative places they use 35-lb. stones-solid bowls of granite or whinstone, beautifully smooth, with a twist of handle on top. Each side has four players, each player two stones. Players slide the stones at a tee at the end of a 114-ft. rink. One man runs his stone up dead; his partner lays one to protect him. If a deft opponent may skid between them, knocking both aside, curlers say he gie'd them breeks...
...with a laudatory tablet to Princip, surmounting his name with laurel wreaths. Protests from abroad caused the Jugoslavian Government to order the Princip tablet covered with a thin layer of plaster, the official position being that it has been obliterated, while the populace consider that the Government is pretty slick. But the new heroic statue would seem to be definitive, a proclamation to the world in marble that the end can justify the means, that the most dastardly of crimes can become a spotless deed...