Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME is a slick-sheet subsidiary of the Chicago Tribune...
Johnston was indicted along with Standard's slick C. Stirling Smith for juggling B. of L.E. collateral of doubtful value to window-dress Standard's shakiness. The Grand Chief Engineer had to admit on the witness stand that, as president of the predecessor bank, he had borrowed some of its funds for stockmarket speculations-at a $36,000 loss to the bank. Along with Smith, previously convicted as an embezzler, Johnston was found guilty of misapplying funds and making false entries. An Ohio appellate court tossed out the Johnston conviction as against the weight of evidence, granted...
...every Newsman instantly knew, was restless Joseph Medill Patterson, 67, the maverick journalistic genius who sired the slick, expert, irritating, irreverent, gamy newspaper with the biggest circulation...
...Slick Chick. In Lexington, Mo., a hen, bought for the pot, worked furiously for a reprieve, produced eight eggs in nine days, six of them double-yolkers...
...living Iago. He has at least equalled that triumph with Cyrano. This character, plagued by an obscene nose, must be "all things." After the first act, Ferrer makes the spectator forget that nose. Declaiming with high spirit, he leaves the audience gasping at the arched flight of his slick patter. He is meant to be a swashbuckler, and Ferrer gives it everything as he swaggers and gesticulates in the mixed role of philosopher, poet, soldier, and self-sacrificing lover, He is at his best as the hyper-sensitive ugly man. Ferrer's nuances of expression in his reaction...