Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left. Wrote British-born Author Alban Dewes (Who Was Socrates?) Winspear in the Communist New Masses: "Unsophisticated freshmen who enter Harvard College assume that they are entering an institution devoted to the unbiased search for truth. This [report] makes it only too clear that they are to enter a slick machine for indoctrination and reactionary propaganda...
Hard work, slick financing, fast talk, and a driving energy that permitted only parlor-car relaxation on his cross-country travels raised Chateaubriand from a law professorship at Recife to the most comprehensive press lordship south of San Simeon. He owns 28 newspapers, 16 radio stations, five magazines and a press service. The most spectacular of his promotions, a campaign for Brazil's amateur Aero Clubs, paid off when Aero Clubs' Sunday fliers started pouring into the war-activated Brazilian Air Force...
Flit Guns and Shotguns. Such nonsense is the highly profitable stock-in-trade of a professional primitive named Lindley Armstrong ("Spike") Jones. For five years he beat the drums in John Scott Trotter's slick sweet band, accompanying Bing Crosby's radio show. It bored him. One day he decided "to louse up some old cornplasters like Chloe." During rehearsals he began to experiment in sound effects as a substitute for music...
...radio from Guam. But was it ever received at Leyte, and if so, by whom? Were Leyte port authorities negligent in not reporting her overdue? Were there defects in the air searches (flown from three nearby bases) which failed to detect the cruiser's giant oil slick for three days after she sank...
This column shouldn't end without a dig at the slick 80-page program issued down at Yale. It made Yale football look like big business--a public relations man's dream--and it made President Seymour's signature on the eight-college Eastern football pact look a little out of place. Or perhaps football programs should have pictures of the football players as they looked...