Word: slickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alabama's Senator Lister Hill came out of his chair like a rooster flapping for the high roost, began squawking in protest. But Chavez had successfully brought off a slick parliamentary maneuver.* A vote was taken. The motion passed, 49 to 17. The FEPC fight was out in the open...
Like Omar, slick William Harding Johnson, $15,000-a-year superintendent of Chicago's school system, has been content to take the cash and let the credit go. He has made good money by co-authoring textbooks for Chicago's schools and from his tutoring school for teachers. By changing the requirements on the eve of exams, Johnson ensured passing grades for his students. (Of 155 successful candidates for jobs as principals, 122 were Johnson pupils...
...last week, 50 men in coveralls scurried over, under, into, out of and around nine fat-bodied Curtiss Commando planes. They installed refrigeration equipment in some, heaters in others. On the silver sides of all nine, they painted the royal blue insignia of a brand-new air-freight enterprise: Slick Airways...
Less than two months, ago, Slick Airways was still just a daydream much like the daydreams of 100,000 other soldier flyers. Unlike most others, this one was backed by 1) plenty of cash and 2) rough-&-ready business savvy. Both were supplied largely by two brothers, dark-haired, studious Thomas Baker Slick Jr., 29, and sandy-haired, easygoing Earl Frates Slick, 25-Money & Ideas. The Slick brothers are sons of famed Tom Slick, "king of the wildcatters," and stepsons of Oilman Charles Urschel* (after Tom Slick died, his partner Urschel married his widow). The brothers were not content...
...Slick Chicks. In Rehoboth, Mass., a reckless chicken hawk power-dived into a henhouse, was captured by quick-thinking hens who ran out, slammed the door...