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Word: slicks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Night Must Fall (by Emlyn Williams; Sam H. Harris, producer) is a taut, slick study in psychopathic homicide, imported from London after a 55-week run there. In a prologue, a judge denies the appeal of a man convicted of two atrocious murders, whose reenactment then follows. Act I discloses the lonely Essex household of Mrs. Bramson (May Whitty), a querulous, malingering old lady who keeps in genteel British bondage her penniless and emotionally suffocated niece Olivia (Angela Baddeley). When the maid complains of pregnancy and her seducer is called on the carpet, he turns out to be Dan (Author...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 12, 1936 | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

...stories and articles, big pages, colorful men's fashion drawings, found instant favor with a large and admiring public. Its second issue appeared on a monthly basis. Last month Esquire reached a circulation peak, sent some 440,000 copies to readers throughout the land. Last week this big, slick publishing success branched out with a speculative journalistic sideline. The trade was informed, through the medium of a full-page advertisement in Editor & Publisher, that "The Magazine for Men" was entering the newspaper syndicate business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Breeches Boys | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

Except for his portraits, Sculptor Lovet-Lorski never uses a model, works out his slick archaic figures from his imagination and his knowledge of anatomy. He still does most of his work in Paris, cannot abide New York. In San Francisco his artistic patron is capable Robert Gump of the huge Gump store in whose galleries most of Lovet-Lorski's sculpture is shown. Last week Patron Gump had just found a new hilltop studio for his protege at No. 1048 Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lorochka | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

...desolate part of Carmarthenshire, Wales, last week, three cows had the fright of their lives as a trim blue & silver monoplane suddenly dropped down out of the mist to a bumpy landing beside them. As the cows' owner ran up, out o? the plane stepped a black-jowled, slick-&-kinky-haired man wearing a very dark shirt, a very light necktie. In a voice which sounded as if he had a hot potato in his mouth he demanded: "Is this Scotland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Transatlantic Types | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...slick he was his feet slipped out from under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poets & People | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

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