Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democrat John Carroll, veteran of both World Wars, started the fight. Protesting the unprecedented scale of the bill, he moved to kill it outright. In the first showdown, the House voted twice to do so, but on standing and teller votes in which names are not recorded. Slick Parliamentarian Rankin was not to be licked so easily. Immediately, he demanded a roll call...
...sseldorf, the Ruhr's money and fashion capital, is drab and desolate. But by night, scrap dealers and black marketeers crowd into such slick cellar restaurants as the Goldene Treppe (Golden Staircase), where they dine on smoked salmon and duck at $12 a meal, and into such cafés as the Allotria (Tomfoolery), where they jitterbug to Bel Mir Bist Du Schön with heavily rouged hostesses known in Germany as Animierdamen-"animation ladies...
...Slick Flop. He had come, it seemed, to an art style of his own after a good many years of following other people's. "At seven," he says, "I was definitely modernistic in outlook. My first painting was rather like a fumbling Matisse." He grew up to paint slick surrealist canvases. When he showed 30 of them in Dublin three years ago, he sold only two or three; when he hauled out more than 100 in his own Belfast, not a one was sold. Middleton supported his wife and three children by working as a damask designer...
...says Sell, "every time I go through a magazine I'm like an old fire horse. When I hear the bell, and see the smoke and flame, it always gets me up." Last week the 59-year-old fire horse went back into harness as editor of slick, sophisticated Town & Country...
...than he already is. Even more than in his previous novels, he deals with a subject which will interest millions of people who can easily fit themselves into the place of Charley Gray, Mr. Marquand's protagonist. In addition, "Point of No Return" is written in a style so slick and even that one glides through it effortlessly, like sliding down a bannister...