Word: slickness
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...Paul Robeson, a leftwinger herself, wrote a letter to the Springfield (Mass.) Union. It was a little slick, and studded with the tag ends of party phrases, but also in it were sentences which showed a little of what it meant to be famously unpopular in the U.S. Excerpts...
...dockers' stubbornness, there was little bitterness, no violence. Along winding narrow streets sunk deep between black warehouses, strikers with Sunday-slick hair ambled peacefully in a Sabbath-like quiet. Few trucks moved. Pickets applauded a truckload of soldiers who passed singing "Life gets teejus, don't it?" On the quayside where the soldiers were unloading ships, a striking foreman saw a cargo net threatening a young guardsman, cried out: "Mind there, son." He turned to a friend, said: "I wish those boys wouldn't take chances. They treat it like a big game...
...International (i.e., North American) Society of Christian Endeavor (membership: 2,000,000). But he would still keep his jobs as president of the World's Christian Endeavor Union (4,000,000 members), chaplain of the Chapel of the Four Chaplains in Philadelphia, and editor of the slick-paper layman's monthly Christian Herald (circ...
Then too, the score for "Top hat" is way out of the league of the newer music. But the real difference between the two picture is that in "Top Hat" the slick sophistication of Astaire and Rogers dominate the show; in the "Barkleys" it hardly survives the smothering effects of a sentimental vulgarity almost implicit in the term musical, "extravaganza...
Right Role. In the genteel bedlam of Manhattan's Cafe Society (six nights a week, after the curtain rings down on South Pacific), she was making her own solo hit. Slick-haired, flat-faced Juanita just hauled off from the microphone, braced her 61 inches and 165 pounds, and let the customers have it in a full, strong voice that ranged easily from deep purple to high yellow. She moaned Am I Blue and her own Lament over Love, and usually she gave them Bali Ha'i and Happy Talk, her South Pacific hits. Offstage, she had nothing...