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Word: slickly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME, Jan. 12, I notice your comments on Georgia's Governor Talmadge, in which you say he "threw himself into a conga on a slick dance floor, broke two ribs, returned to duty taped stiff as a mummy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 9, 1942 | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

...White House went an angry cable from leaders of Puerto Rico's Coalition Party, begging President Roosevelt to take Rex Tugwell away. In Washington, slick-haired, solemn Bolivar Pagan, Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, passionately denounced Rex Tugwell as "an American quisling." Said Commissioner Pagan: "He is doing everything so that loyal American citizens in Puerto Rico become sore and disunited. . . . Governor Tugwell is doing a good job for the Axis powers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Rex in Puerto Rico | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

Eugene Talmadge, flogging-apologist Governor of Georgia, threw himself into a conga on a slick dance floor, broke two ribs, returned to duty taped stiff as a mummy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 12, 1942 | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

...Designated wry, dry, slick Lowell Mellett, Director of the Office of Government Reports, to be Coordinator of Government Films as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. At War: President's Week, Jan. 5, 1942 | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

...Wake Up Screaming (20th Century-Fox) is a showcase for the renowned torsos of bountiful Betty Grable and beautiful Victor Mature. A melodramiable mystery, well-directed, nicely acted, competently atmospherical, it is notable for a complete absence of gunplay and for a slick performance by enormous (290-lb). Laird Cregar, as the psychopathic head of a homicide squad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 15, 1941 | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

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