Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tommy Loughran, slick-haired Philadelphia heavyweight; after spraining his ankle in the fifth round: his ten-round bout against hard-skulled, gold-toothed Paulino Uzcudun; in Manhattan...
House Organization. On paper the Democrats had a bare majority with which to organize the 72nd House. Even if Republicans won in New Jersey they would still be two votes shy of control. Farmer Laborite Paul John Kvale, slick-haired young Congressman from Minnesota, might join with the G. O. P. for organization purposes but his vote would no longer be the balance of power. Democratic chances were also enhanced by mutterings from Wisconsin where eight "Progressive" Republicans, under the leadership of cross-eyed, frock-coated little John Mandt Nelson, announced they would ditch their party on the organization vote...
Last week the Exchange's official voice, which nowadays comes out of the mouth of tall, plump, slick-black-haired President Richard Whitney, was heard in formal defense of that Exchange practice which has fired hottest current criticism: Short Selling...
...through that indefinite area of brick known as the Radcliffe Yard. Hello, what was this? No doubt a Debutante hurrying to a tea on Brattle street. Hardly had the Vagabond turned around to pursue his course than he blundered onto another. By heavens, the place was full of them! Slick, svelte, trim as a new yacht. It was Radcliffe. A tradition was passing. Worse, it had come to a pretty pass. Here, for how many years he did not know, the Vagabond had lived, lived shall he say?--existed, with this land of plenty just around the corner. Well...
...writing to an admirer, reads it aloud in lieu of an English composition. He and his friends belong to the In-or-In Club of which Penrod is president. When obliged to initiate a sniveling little teacher's pet, they paddle him till he needs a doctor, slick down his hair so thoroughly with tar that he makes his next appearance with a shaved skull. Penrod and his friend Sam have a fight at a birthday party. Penrod's dog dies and is buried near the clubhouse. A boy named Bitts gets his father...