Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Publisher Joe Patterson had been virtually a stepfather to Terry: he chose Terry's name from 50 submitted by Caniff, himself added and the Pirates, and suggested the strip's Oriental locale. Now Joe Patterson will have to find someone else to match Caniff's slick draftsmanship, crackling dialogue and skilled adventure story. For his part, Caniff will have to create an entirely new character-cast and story for Field. So far he has decided only that he will not borrow from his Male Call, a lustier, bustier strip which he draws free for over...
...right on working-at parties. The only thing that can keep her away from a party given by Elsa Maxwell, Lady Mendl or Cobina Wright Sr. or Barbara Hutton Grant or Ouida Rathbone or Baron Rothschild is an earthquake, a flood, or possibly a runny nose. Her conversation is slick, spangled, witty, shot full of Colbyisms. Some of these are close to schoolgirlish, like "doll," meaning darling, for a man she likes; others are more stern, like her stock stopper to a conversation she thinks silly: "Well, how dull...
...spurt of the old speed, and an aggressive instinct for team play, he fed a stream of passes to linemates Elmer Lach and Maurice Richard, by Christmas had piled up 19 assists and 15 goals. That gave him a one-point, bonus-earning edge over veteran Bill Cowley, the slick stick handler and playmaking ace of the Boston Bruins...
Died. Philip Guedalla, 55, best-selling British historian (The Second Empire, The Two Marshals, The Hundred Years); in London. An Oxford (Balliol College) brilliant (he was president of the Union [Debating] Society, testing ground of many a Prime Minister), swart, slick-haired Guedalla wrote biographies as brilliantined as his conversation, admired the tawry grandeur of the age he mocked best: the era of Bismarck and Napoleon III. His definition of biography: "a region that is bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium...
...music lovers, who in turn gazed expectantly at the stage. On the stage, seated at six instruments which looked like sewing machines with boxed-in superstructures, were six electrico-musical artists, all of scientific mien and all with electro-dynamic hair except one, who was as slick as a double-wrapped generator coil...