Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marble and stained glass magnificence bulged with some 500 entries; more than 400 of them were paintings. Long halls were devoted to unknowns from all parts of Mexico. Their work ranged from flat, bright-colored primitives and the overfinicky naturalism of Sunday painters to imitations of imitations of the slick stuff produced in Mexico City...
Last week in Washington dignified Elisha Walker got in to see the Mead Committee, just under the wire of its recess for one month. He informed the war profits investigators that slick Murray Garsson had got the $5,000 on a note signed by Representative Andrew Jackson May, chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee; then both had reneged on paying off the loan...
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, World War I's slick slacker, lashed himself into an offensive fury. The butler on his Downington (Pa.) estate told police all about it: when he demanded $150 in back pay, fat, 52-year-old Bergdoll gave him a quick sock in the head, then grabbed a shotgun. "I'll shoot you down like a dog," said Bergdoll. Wife Berta Bergdoll stepped in, ruled out a shooting war, let it go to law. The butler's charge: assault & battery and pointing of firearms...
Producer Walter Wanger and Director Jacques Tourneur have turned Ernest Haycox' slick, colorful, romantic Satevepost serial into a slick, colorful, romantic movie. If life in the old West was not really as much fun as this picture makes out, history is clearly at fault...
...style, long on anecdote and short on big, dull facts.'Like Collier's Quentin Reynolds, Kyle Crichton and Jim Marshall, he is a swift, easy writer. He regards his promotion as more of the same formula that gets Collier's its 2,846,052 circulation: slight, slick fiction; articles serious in subject, light in treatment; the simple, direct editorials of Reuben Maury who (for a price) writes another kind for the late Joe Patterson's New York Daily News. Says Editor Davenport: "I intend to edit the magazine from a reporter's viewpoint. No ivory...