Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Slick-haired Ralph Greenleaf, 13-time world's "pocket billiard" (pool) champion : his 14th championship, after three years of retirement ; by beating nervous onetime champion (1934) Andrew Ponzi 125-to-107 in the final playoff of a four-way tie after a 66-game round robin; in Manhattan...
...pale British imitation of TIME named Cavalcade was last week's American Cavalcade, edited by Thomas Bertram Costain, 51, associate editor of the Saturday Evening Post from 1920 to 1934. Handsome, well-printed on slick paper, illustrated with color, filled with stories, articles and poems by Rupert Hughes, Lucian Cary, Leonard Nason, Lois Montross, Frederick Irving Anderson, William Hazlett Upson, Valentine Williams, Albert Payson Terhune, Wallace Irwin, Jack Dempsey, Rian James, Gilbert Seldes, American Cavalcade looks the way a good issue of the Saturday Evening Post might look if waste wordage were squeezed out, advertising omitted, the magazine compressed...
Then Edward, his friend and original benefactor, came to the Throne. Promptly swank Mayfair's slick-papered smartchart bi-weekly Leisure bought and ran in serial installments excerpts from his forthcoming biography, "The New King . . . Exclusive . . . Intimate Life Study ... by Hector Bolitho." The series ran for four months. Last week just about the biggest biographic surprise Mayfair has had came when a few people bought what they casually supposed was only the binding up in book form of the Leisure sketches, a friendly series of bi-weekly pieces about Edward VIII seemingly penned in deepest, sincerest admiration...
Last week as a starter for her Coronation trousseau, royal Elizabeth ordered 26 frocks and evening cloaks from Norman Hartnell, Ltd., then stepped out with King George VI to the first play they have "done" since His Majesty's accession: The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse, a slick crook play which had its Manhattan premiere last week...
...Metropolitan's most decorative recruit in years is Bidú Sayáo, slim, slick and 30, who turned up in Manhattan last spring to solo with the Philharmonic-Symphony and was quickly snapped up by the opera. Her debut as Manon was a triumph of personality as well as art. The little Brazilian used her little voice so that every phrase told. She tossed her pretty head, fell in and out of love, made Massenet's shallow, adorable wanton come to life. In La Traviata she was a higher-minded harlot, pathetically resigning her love...