Word: slickly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whoever was responsible for the account of the Central Conference of American Rabbis [TIME, July 8], TIME-reader Fern Pels (who, incidentally, speaks a slick Yiddish) would like to point out one refreshingly asinine mistake...
While this slick out was pondered by His Majesty's Government, an amazing indiscretion popped loose in London. From Mr. Eden or some member of his immediate entourage Universal Service claimed to have scooped the actual words of Il Duce to Britain's envoy at their private conference in the Palazzo Venezia...
Last week after all views had been aired, the Convention got around to voting on the report. Unanimously adopted was a slick compromise, by which the Social Action Commission is authorized to distribute the report to such churches as wish to study it. By no means is it to be made a test for Baptist "fellowship or service...
Jazz fans, many of whom would not call Noble's slick music jazz at all, will haggle endlessly in defense of their favorite orchestras. Among famed dance bands, Paul Whiteman's has the richest tradition but his performances now seem sterile. Leo Reisman, another pioneer, is on the wane. The Lombardo band persists in "flabbing" but the public likes it. Two years ago dancing collegians turned to the stomping Casa Lomas. But with success the Casa Lomas are more & more mechanical. The Vallée band plays just as it always has, but Conductor Rudy has proved...
...plot-walloper, Author Slesinger usually goes at the gist of the matter. Some of her stories-like the one in which a blue-stocking old maid, vacationing at a dude ranch, finds the secret of happiness and horseback-riding by letting a cowboy seduce her-seem a little too slick to be true, but most of them have an authentic ring...