Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years, a horse in Captain Schultz's Circus performing in Rochester, N. Y.'s Centennial celebration last week, trotted a lion around the ring each afternoon & evening. Rain fell one afternoon and the board platform, set up outdoors in a park, grew wet and slick. In the midst of its act the horse slipped, nearly threw its rider. When the act was over the lion, a four-year-old named "Baby," lunged at the horse's throat. Its trainer was too quick for it, drove it from the ring...
...little know perfectly well that their titular leader at this time should be above reproach, unjustified though the reproach may be. But many feel Banker Hecht's long devotion to ABA affairs should be duly rewarded. No one denies that the swart little Bavarian from Ansbach with the slick black hair and the cropped mustache is a banker born. After a short training in Chicago he went to New Orleans, was a bank president at 33. But whether the ABA will break tradition to pass by Mr. Hecht at 49 is likely to be a hot question when...
...last week's breakfast "Dr." Smith, a slick-scalped man who wears gold-rimmed glasses and winged collars, caressed the skull of his deceased patient, placed a cigaret between its spring-hung jaws, clacked its bare hands upon the table. In final flourish the nine naprapaths signed a scroll listing themselves as members of a Post-Mortem Club and willing their bones thereto. A notary public authenticated the- document for what it was worth...
...show people do not behave as these do, it is only because there are not enough Hechts and MacArthurs to teach them how and give them bright lines to speak. Twentieth Century is good fun, slick, wild and improbable. John Barrymore is expert as the producer because, like the rest of his family, he is endowed with a touch of the spurious and theatrical. He postures, tears his hair, wriggles, shouts, jumps, and with a gesture or a lift of the voice delineates such spectacles as a herd of camels, Rev. Mr. Davidson in Rain, Judas strangling himself (with...
...reporter could hardly voice his approval of the proposal before Mr. Durante expressed the latest decree of Hollywood, with a faint smile. "A new trend in screen lovers is upon us, yeah a new trend. No more of these slick-haired, smooth guys. Inner beauty! And that's where I come in that internal pulchritude is what get's 'em. With my looks and Greta's personality, would we be glorified!" exclaimed Jimmy with that look of inquiring exultation so familiar to his fans...