Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your mind." In Washington last week the Post Office Department began a hearing to determine: 1) whether Esquire's jokes and its "Varga Girl" drawings are obscene (TIME, Oct.11; 2) whether second-class mail privileges should be denied to the widely read (circ. 695,285), 50? smoking-room slick...
Watson's endorsement caught Johnston in the middle of a speech to oilmen in Fort Worth. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's slick young (46) president stepped off the rostrum, gave the press a statement : "I am not a candidate for any public office. I do not want to live at either end of Pennsylvania Avenue. I would rather live at either end of Main Street of any good American town...
...intellectuals demurred. The literary intellectuals said Kipling did not write poetry but a slick doggerel-a plausible argument. The political intellectuals said Kipling was an apologist for imperialism-a practically unanswerable argument...
Hull's personal adviser is also his croquet partner, James Clement Dunn. Dapper, slick-haired, 53-year-old "Jimmy" Dunn married into the Armour packing family, gives lavish receptions, likes European nobility, wears the right clothes. In the past he supported the Franco regime, backed Marshal Henri Pétain helped Vichyite Marcel Peyrouton. On his record, he has been anti-Soviet...
...shadow of giant Henry Kaiser's three Columbia River shipyards, the small Albina Engine & Machine Works of Portland has turned out 38 sub-chasers, won three "E" pennants, chopped down absenteeism, kept its 4,500 workers happy. Its secret: slick showmanship in employe relations. Samples...