Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fall doctors were startled to receive in the mail a slick new penny pamphlet called Gonorrhea the Crippler! garnished with diagrams and crammed with terse, practical advice. Other new pamphlets were Syphilis in Our Town, and Syphilis, Its Cause, Its Spread, Its Cure. Last week Dr. Parran proudly ushered forth the Service's most ambitious popular work: Communicable Diseases...
...held one another to a 0-to-0 tie in their only previous meeting this season. The Giants, best defensive team in the league, had been beaten only once in its last 23 games. Yet they were the underdogs, for the Redskins were an awesome tribe. Led by slick Sam Baugh and Frank Filchock (who between them had completed 94 out of 160 passes) and Anvil Andy Farkas (whose ferocious running had scored eleven touchdowns), they had chalked up 235 points this season-101 in their last three games...
When Charlie McCarthy takes the air on Sunday nights, speaking the slick impertinences of Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, the Chase and Sanborn Hour traditionally has the ear of perhaps a third of the nation, largest radio audience in the U. S. But Charlie appears only twice (a total of about 15 minutes) during the hour: the rest is usually orchestra music, songs by Contralto Dorothy Lamour and Baritone Donald Dickson, effervescences by guest stars and a master of ceremonies. Between Charlie's turns at the mike, the interest of his vast audience wavers. Many tune in on other programs, others...
...House Contain Us (Liveright, $2), a Rumanian prize novel adapted by one Oscar Leonard, is a slick if not sleazy combination of boudoir romance and political satire, might have been influenced by Molnar, Schnitzler, any one of a thousand under-the-pillow French novels...
...should pay dividends in the future. Now he has a band of willing boys who have much natural ability, and the chances of moulding them into a first-class operating unit are infinitely better. In many respects, the impossible task facing Coach Fesler last year was to make a slick purse...