Word: sleeked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gendarmes saluted. Out stepped His Royal Highness Umberto Nicola Tommaso Giovanni Maria, Prince of Piedmont, his sleek hair shining like patent leather, medals gleaming, a pale blue sash across the front of his grey-green silver epauletted uniform. A band struck up the Italian royal hymn...
...snarling private armies (the semi-Fascist Heimwehr, and the Socialist Schutzbund), the entire cabinet of Chancellor Ernst Streeruwitz, an ineffectual businessman, declared itself incapable of dealing with the situation, resigned in a body. Leaders of all political parties rushed to Vienna's police station, begged sleek white-bearded Police Chief Johann Schober to take over the reins of government...
...such thing happened. C. Roy Keys's sleek Wilgold III won handily. Mr. Keys, himself driving another of his speedboats in the race, capsized on a turn, broke...
Vanitie v. Resolute. Outboards, dinghies, canoes and purring launches teemed among a great flock of sleek sailing ships in Morris Cove, Conn. (New Haven) as the New York Yacht Club fleet made ready for the gold-star event of U. S. yachting. Early one morning, a tall, slightly stooped man stepped to the bridge of his big white steam yacht Nourmahal and gave a signal. A gun boomed. Moorings were slipped and out sailed the fleet in the wake of Commodore William Vincent Astor. Among many another power craft that churned along with the fleet was John Pierpont Morgan...
...Sleek Frenchmen, great-throated Germans, hearty Englishmen, voluble Belgians, blond Swedes, good-natured Austrians, ill-tailored Czechs, pompous Italians, hungry Letts, solid Dutchmen, bland Danes, swarthy Poles, incomprehensible Lithuanians, dour Spaniards, excitable Serbs, fish-eating Finns, bony Norwegians, polyglot Swiss, egregious Estonians and 100% Americans-all these to the number of 4,000 assembled last week in Berlin. Greatest of them all were the Americans, 1,000 in number. They were most plentiful because they considered themselves and are considered the world's foremost exponents of the meeting's subject-advertising...