Word: slickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Curly-haired Pat Boland hardly ever talked in the House, worked quietly in the halls and cloakrooms which are the whip's domain. Fervent Bob Ramspeck has made many impassioned speeches for his favorite causes. But he also knows the slick-floored, smoky, gossip-filled cloakrooms as few Congressmen...
...Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, George Innes, Claude Monet, Doris Lee, Winslow Homer' Jules Breton, Caravaggio, Renoir, Manet,' John Singer Sargent, Vincent van Gogh. Art Institute Director Daniel Catton Rich blanched not a whit. Said he: "It was perfectly natural. The students like pretty girls and they like slick technique. I look at Petty myself whenever I get the chance...
...other hand, the slick, sleek, swallow-swift destroyers (DDs) are necessarily shaped and molded, crammed like a clock with delicate precision parts. Cost of a modern destroyer: $7,500,000, five times the cost of a Liberty ship...
...cinematic career as the embittered young deserter, it is not good enough. His handsome, unlined face contradicts the profound words he is asked to utter. He does not for a moment look as if he had either thought or lived them. This deficiency is partially offset by the slick performances of bit-players Merivale, Nigel Bruce, Alexander Knox, Gladys Cooper, etc. Their considerable assistance helps make This Above All an entertaining, occasionally inspiring picture which almost came...
...Affront." To the juicy job of Collector of Internal Revenue in Missouri he named hulking, blue-jowled Robert E. Hannegan, formerly assistant boss of as slick a political machine as St. Louis ever saw, until indignant St. Louis voters turned it out a year ago. St. Louis groaned; it had trounced the machine for giving it some of the worst circuit judges in history, for conniving in the State Democratic organization's attempt to steal the Governorship (TIME, March 23); it wanted no more of Hannegan & Co. Snapped the Post-Dispatch: "The President's action is an affront...