Word: slickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology specializing in the first area, spices his lectures with slightly off-color anecdotes and slang, but still manages to get the subject across thoroughly. A regular in the nation's slick-papered magazines, Professor Hooton makes his courses among the most sought-after in the College...
...have overlooked one powerful lever for change. The public might very well go for adult programs if they were advertised more cleverly and expensively. The continuing ability of the Five Foot Shelf and of Mr. Sherwin Cody's Better English Institute to buy full-page ads in the slick publications proves that there is a paying public interested in education and self-improvement. This fact will not forever be lost to advertisers. We have in recent times seen the decline of the supposedly eternal gag type of humor, and its slow replacement by the situation comedy of Morgan and Fred...
Foolish Virgins, like Double Wedding in Beverly Hills, did demonstrate the kind of craftsmanship and the horrified absorption in sex which have always been Ernst's claims to notoriety. Only Salvador Dali (whom orthodox surrealists consider too slick and too successful) can rival Ernst at his most unpleasant...
...chief fad everywhere. Another fad: "shorty" coats (known in some stores as "swallow tails"). In Chicago, Marshall Field's offered a shorty specialty which was going like hot cakes among teenagers: a "hot-jive jacket" of yellow plastic with such sharp legends as "Natch" and "Slick Chick" printed on it. The "slicker" days of the twenties were back...
...shorter stories, "The Vigil," by William A. Emerson, is neat and subdued, creating atmosphere in a small space. In "Kenneth," A. K. Lowis has satirized the slick magazine story by substituting grotesque animals for the even more grotesque creatures that inhabit the originals. The result is almost pointless, but delightful...