Word: slickly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second oldest bank in Manhattan first opened for business at No. 40 Wall Street in 1799. Unable to obtain a bank charter from a New York legislature which was under the thumb of Alexander Hamilton, a slick politician named Aaron Burr wangled a charter for a concern to supply the City of New York with "pure & wholesome water." As all the world now knows, there was tucked away in that charter a harmless-looking clause permitting The Manhattan Co. to transact any financial business within...
...spectators who witnessed this slick musicomedy success last week could have guessed the travail its book had undergone. When the Morro Castle caught fire last September off the New Jersey coast, killed 134 people and ran aground, it also wrecked the libretto of Producer Vinton Freedley's Anything Goes. Months before in France, the oldtime British libretto team of Guy Bolton and Pelham Grenville Wodehouse had written a comic script about a marine disaster. The Morro Castle tragedy instantly ruled it out as a subject for fun-making. Producer Freedley sent up a distress signal, got two able...
...popularity of the new Citroën. Perhaps in another three months the Ford of France will be able to get on his feet. For that period Michelin agreed to guarantee the debts of Citroën, but on a hard condition. To make sure that the slick motorman plays no tricks, Michelin forced M. Citroën to admit into his plants Michelin technicians and Michelin accountants who will keep tab on every move, every franc, every centime...
Across the hall from the court room, a library was hastily converted into a theatre where reels of soapmaking film were screened for the benefit of Federal Judge Thomas Whitten Slick, whose brother Albert runs a big South Bend laundry. As the trial progressed last week the court adjourned across the street to an office building where Lawyer Baker had installed complete laboratories. There white-coated chemists practiced the art of soapmaking at long tables groaning with beakers, bottles, vials, tubes. Most elaborate in the history of the Northern Indiana district court, the trial was expected to last three weeks...
...best tennists in the world have been trying unsuccessfully to do since the French championship matches last May. At Forest Hills last week Perry whisked through the first two sets against Allison 6-4, 6-3. As if impatient for the rest period that would enable him to slick down his black hair and change his floppy trousers, he flicked away the third, 3-6. Allison had the fourth too, 6-1, before Perry again settled down to serious tennis, and took the championship set 8-6. It was the first time since Lacoste (1927) that a foreigner...