Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a World War II Tommy learned his social and political ABCs from ABCA (the Army Bureau of Current Affairs). ABCA started after Dunkirk, when British troops had a lot of time on their hands, and needed a mental pick-me-up. Slick pamphlets crammed with hard facts were sent to platoon leaders, with orders to hold bull sessions about them. ABCA did far better than anything the U.S. devised to tell soldiers what the shooting was about...
...Baiser de la Fee" was the big disappointment of the Tuesday program. Its music is early Stravinsky--in the composer's words, "after Tchaikowsky"--without the electric qualities of the great modernist's later work, over-gushy like the compositions of the earlier Russian Romantic but lacking their slick appeal. The story is Nineteenth Century and dull, the dancing, including that of Nathalic Krassovska as the Fairy and star Alexandra Danilova as the Bride, completely uninspiring...
...chronicle of these events called F.Y.I, (meaning For Your Information, as distinct from For Publication) arrives weekly at the desk of everybody in TIME Inc. It is an informal, six-page, single-spaced, photo-offset bulletin put out without benefit of slick paper or inspirational messages from the officers of this corporation...
...witty shreds were all Bea Lillie. Quick and slick as a cat in pattens, she practically had them standing on their tiaras...
...unkind daylight, Fixer Monroe swelled into quite a big bug. His "big red house on R Street" became notorious. That was where Monroe entertained industrialists who wanted war contracts and governmental bigwigs who had influence in handing them out. After much headline hullabaloo, the committee finally decided that slick Mr, Monroe was a nonpoisonous...