Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...officer did his duty. Thus last week, for the fourth time in ten years, Manager Ballinger, who first met Harry F. ("Mike") Gerguson (alias Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff) in Dunhill's London shop, had set the Law on his slick little customer. As of yore, Mike's craving for Royal Yacht pipe tobacco, at $10 per lb., had gotten him in trouble. He simply cannot keep a.way from Dunhill's and its fragrant mixture, which was first recommended to him, he claims, by his royal friend "David" (Prince of Wales...
...constitutionality, after which it would go to the Finance Committee to have its revenue raising features examined. Loudly fearful that such procedure would cause delay, Connecticut's Republican Bingham, a "lame duck" who would like to see his name tagged to Wet legislation, attempted to execute a slick trick by moving immediate consideration of a 3.2% beer bill of his own. His motion was defeated 48-10-23 after Democrats hotly accused him of seeking "partisan advantage' But this vote was only on parliamentary practice, gave no true clue to the Senate's beer sentiments...
...Slick-haired Ralph Greenleaf: the pocket billiards championship of the world, for the 13th time; by winning nine matches (in one of which he made the tournament's high run of 106), losing none; in Manhattan...
...like most character actors he usually winds up (in the parlance of the type he customarily impersonates) behind the eight-ball.* In The Champ Wallace Beery was a sad superannuated pugilist. In Flesh he is a German wrestler named Polikai, gentle, generous, an easy mark for such a slick girl as Lora Nash (Karen Morley) who is the mistress of a thief (Ricardo Cortez) and the mother of a little illegitimate shaver. The thief undertakes to be Polikai's manager. Soon the whole menage-Polikai, Nash, thief and shaver-go from Germany to the U. S., where the thief...
...walls burgeon with the works of socialite portraitists, sporting artists, caricaturists, sculptors. For an artist, a show at the Leicester is like making a good club. Last week the Leicester Galleries gave the first British showing of the wash drawings of Curtis Arnoux Peters, the New Yorker's slick, sexy "Peter Arno." The show was reviewed by that stuffiest of papers, the ultra-conservative Morning Post which promptly compared Arno's work to the line drawings in Punch. All honors went to Artist Arno. Wrote the Post in its best pontifical manner...