Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prescott's big Army hospital, he said that when six copies of TIME'S domestic edition turned up in his division during the Buna campaign, the boys took infinite pains to preserve them so they could pass them along, page by page. For some reason, the slick paper they were printed on survived the New Guinea jungle rot better than any other reading matter...
Stacy was a born fixer. When Lieut. "Slick" Novak, submarine commander and U.S. Hero No. 1, came to Manhattan on leave, Stacy fixed a little dinner party. He sat Slick next to full-blown Peggy Markham. Just to make it look like a foursome, Stacy also invited Poetess Susan Grieve, who was unpoetically cold and prim. Stacy ordered lots of drinks, and soon Slick and Peggy were giving each other appraising glances in the manner of "two cobras raising their heads from the grass." Stacy hastily whistled up a taxi for them. Then, suddenly, everything misfired; poor Stacy found himself...
Susan and Slick are the chief characters in Ethel Vance's new novel. In two previous novels, Escape (TIME, Sept. 25, 1939) and Reprisal (TIME, Nov. 16, 1942), Author Vance, who under her real name (Grace Zaring Stone) also wrote The Bitter Tea of General Yen, has used her talent for melodrama to best-selling effect. .But Winter Meeting is quite a different kind of book-a brief, sharp study of the way in which lives may be turned upside down in the twinkling...
Gibbering Unknowns. At first, Susan and Slick "smiled at each other but without warmth, rather as though they had just bumped into each other on a sidewalk." But there was no escape. So for the first time ever, Susan told somebody her life story. It was quite a tale. Her mother, she told Slick, had first drunk herself into a stupor with crème de cacao and curaçao, then ran away with a traveling salesman. Thereupon her father began to lose his wits, finally cut his throat with a razor. Her grandfather was popped into a sanatorium...
...time Slick has rejoined his boat, Author Vance has put the harried lovers over most of the worst jumps of mutual torment, misery and self-sacrifice. Once in a while dolor is relieved by snaps of humor and gay observations about human types, but all in all it is chiefly a must for those who love a good...