Word: slickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME, Dec. 28) has painted portraits in the past, the results have rarely been recognizable as human beings. But last week his first portrait show at Manhattan's Knoedler galleries proved that Dali, when confronted by society ladies, can make faces look as vapidly human as any other slick artist can. Garnished with the carefully strange surrealist fantasy which Salvador Dali affects, some of his canvases could pass for society magazine covers...
...Angeles, slick-haired, 18-year-old Amos Raymond Latshaw coolly confessed the murder of five kinsfolk. When his father and stepmother fell to arguing, Amos shot and killed them both; then to cover up, killed his grandfather and grandmother. His eight-year-old brother stood by, crying, "So I let him have...
...Dempsey-Gibbons fight, the Harding arms conference, the famed Zev-Papyrus match race, wrote everything from editorials to whimsy. By 1924, when his third novel was published, he was ready to try free-lancing as a steady thing. He wrote adventure and boy-meets-girl stories for the slick-paper magazines, essays on literature, politics and realpolitik for Harper's and Saturday Review of Literature...
...Jayvees, who have now wen 10 of their last 11 games, including a triumph over highly rated Dean Academy, led from the start, and were ahead 24 to 14 at the end of the first half. Mike DeLeo, slick floorman, paced the team with 15 points, while forward Brewster Wolfe had 12. Coach Floyd Stahl used 12 players...
Last week, though its final tooling up was still months away, the vast, flat topped, windowless Marietta building stood about complete. Designed and constructed by slick Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert Jr., work began eleven months ago under the watchful eye of Army engineers. The ultimate in aircraft plants, the new factory will use thousands of machines and workers to turn out bombers -the type still a military secret...