Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went to Sunday School with; he had been a World War I hero (an artillery captain, he saved his panicky battery from a German trap in the St. Mihiel fighting). He was a farm boy become county judge, with friends "in the sticks" to add to Pendergast's slick Kansas City machine...
Basil O'Connor, solid, slick-haired onetime law partner of President Roosevelt, head of his pet philanthropy, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, was appointed by the President to a new $12,000-a-year post: Chairman of the American Red Cross, succeeding the late Norman Hezekiah Davis...
Propaganda ranging from the slick to the grotesquely inept pours in there virtually 24 hours a day. This mad ethereal menu was described last week by George ("Smiley") Grim, Mutual Network and XGOY (Chungking) broadcaster, on loan from the U.S. Department of State to the Chinese Ministry of Information. Items : Items...
Subsecretary Somoza's slick, smiling, kinetic personality won over U.S. Minister Matthew Elting Hanna. His graceful dancing entranced Mrs. Hanna. The Americans pushed Tacho's fortunes, were gratified when President Moncada put him at the head of the National Guard. In good time, Tacho used the National Guard to liquidate his most formidable rival: Augusto Sandino, the pint-sized, ferocious patriot whose ragged guerrillas never yielded to the U.S. Marines. In 1936, Tacho took the Presidency for himself in a phony election, won immediate U.S. recognition...
...Spanish guitar also has an Andre Kostelanetz. He is Vicente Gomez, a slick-haired, 40-year-old Spaniard who combines the intricate technique of the classical guitar player with a serviceable flair for flamenco improvisation. Like most artists who play both ends against the middle, Gomez has been a great financial success. Drafted last year, he now makes $50 a month at Camp Shanks...