Word: slipperyness
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Slippery. In Houston, small-boned Frank Mullins told how last June he broke out of his death cell in Edinburgh jail: he dieted, greased himself with nose salve, slithered through a 12-inch hole and an 18-inch drainpipe.
After watching some 50 shivering steel pickets march through the slush, Frank L. Driver, president of Harrison, N.J.'s Driver-Harris Co., put benches in his personnel offices, ordered coffee, sandwiches, crullers and pies, sprinkled the slippery sidewalks with sand. Said one apologetic picket: "The strike was orders from...
Among its varied villains, Walter Slezak is outstanding as the sly, slippery, fat one. As the deadpan tough guy, Dick Powell is more acceptable than he ever was as a tirelessly boyish cinemusical crooner. As a thriller-a cinema form which Hollywood often does expertly-Cornered is head-&-shoulders above...
Last week the grunion were running in full flow, and Southern Californians, as usual, were there to greet and catch them. Tide and moon tables were posted on the desk of many a businessman. On proper nights, autos jammed the highway from Malibu to Santa Monica; beach fires crackled from...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., after guiding his destroyer escort through a two-hour hunt for a slippery Jap sub marine, wound up with a kill which Rear Admiral Russell S. Berkey described as "one of the most efficiently conducted anti-submarine operations within my knowledge." The Admiral recommended Lieut. Commander...