Word: slickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alice Marble could play baseball as well as her brothers. She shagged flies after school for the slick San Francisco Seals. "Look here," said her brother Dan, a San Francisco policeman, "baseball is no game for a girl. Look at Helen Wills and Helen Jacobs. Why not lead the swell life they do-go round the world in style and just play a few tennis matches every day." Brother Dan bought his kid sister a racquet, shoved her off to Golden Gate Park's public courts...
...probably intending a good deal more than that. When General Francisco Franco's slick brother-in-law Don Ramon Serrano Suner returned from his first trips to Berlin and Rome he began tapping members for a Hispanidad Council, designed to foster "intelligence and love" for Spain in Latin America. Since one of the first Councilors was Spain's new Consul for Havana, it looked as if Don Ramon meant to replace German and Italian fifth columns with the Falange...
...Manhattan show, Artist Martin had a slick portrait, some moody nudes, done in cool tones which nevertheless pulsed with life. In Tomorrow and Tomorrow, a big-thighed prostitute stood in her doorway, looking dejectedly out at the future. Temptation in Tonopah showed a tough-looking croupier, a composite of all the gambling-house characters in the capacious memory of Painter Martin, who is good at crap shooting. Out at Home, a baseball scene, one of the best in the show, was an adroit pattern of such vitality that it seemed to arrest action better than a 1,000th...
...invasion bogey-man was sold us last spring and summer. Despite the dissenting voices of such competent military observers as Hanson Baldwin, it was palmed off on us by a slick bunch of gold-brick artists with President Roosevelt as sales manager. Yet common sense tells us that if England can hold off invasion, we, who are three thousand miles further away and three times as big, are in no terrible danger. The surrender of the British fleet is a very remote possibility. Nevertheless, millions of Americans have swallowed the yarn of invasion, while its originators talk cynically of "defense...
...from Colored Division headquarters, an eleven-page printed pamphlet bearing the title "Let's Follow Thru," with halftone cuts of Roosevelt and Willkie, the record of the New Deal, and an anti-Willkie blast which drew heavily on the "smear" statements in the mimeographed pages. The pamphlet, a slick job with a neat layout, had obviously been prepared by a master chef. One day last week the whole mess was given an airing in New York newspapers...