Word: slickly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert Barrat, as Anderzian the Armenian blackmailer, is appropriately slick and villainish; while Eugene Pallette does a good job in the role of Sergeant Boggs, jumping at conclusions, trying to pin the murder on the first person at hand, using third degree methods...
...gloomy but only mildly exciting chronicle about a turn-of-the-century chorus girl whose characteristic for being present at deaths by violence makes the house on 56th Street resemble a shooting box. Peggy Van Tyle (Kay Francis) enters it first as the happy bride of a slick young socialite (Gene Raymond). She is on hand when her onetime lover (John Halliday) shoots himself. Sent to jail for manslaughter, she reënters the house on 56th Street 20 years later as a lady black-jack dealer, plays cards against a grown daughter who has been taught to think...
They tried to take off from the sultry harbor, but the ship refused to rise, so slick was the water, so still the air. They unloaded 40 gal. of fuel, piled most of their baggage ashore. The Colonel rocked the controls back & forth as he gunned the ship across the harbor. Still it refused to take off. Twice, thrice-five times he tried, then dejectedly clambered ashore again to whistle for a breeze...
...take the 92,071 Peerless shares remaining. Its refusal was based on the opinion of its lawyers (Sullivan & Cromwell) that Peerless Corp. had no charter right to engage in the brewing business, no right to sell stock to finance a wholly owned brewing subsidiary. Promptly Peerless Corp. hired slick little Max D. Steuer to file suit against Redmond & Co. to make it carry out its contract, to collect damages...
...doors, Manhattan newspapers were calling Isidor Kresel "the swift sword of public conscience." Few weeks later, indicted along with seven other Bank of United States officers and their relatives, Counsel Kresel was fingerprinted at police headquarters. The special prosecutor who secured the indictments was another Austrian-born Jew, slick little Max D. Steuer, whom Isidor Kresel had once tried to disbar. Since that time, Lawyer Steuer and Lawyer Kresel had purred vitriolic asides at each other in nearly every court in the State. Their feud became a great legend...