Word: sleekness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pass the frontier without having his luggage opened by Red customs guards. "That is quite unnecessary, Mr. Davies," beamed the Ogpu official, "in your case." Jouncing on for 15 hours to Moscow, Ambassador & Mrs. Davies were met by Soviet and U. S. Embassy officials in high hats and sleek great coats, shivering in 14-below-zero cold which would have made fur caps and untidy bearskins more comfortable. A dozen Red cameramen snapped the Davieses, and off they roared through streets cleared by Stalin's orders to their palace. It was evident that the Dictator, having badly muffed...
Into New York's Madison Square Garden last week trouped the biggest crowd (17,200) that has ever watched a tennis match in the U. S. The attraction was California's long, ambling Ellsworth Vines, world's ablest professional since 1933, against England's sleek, light-footed Frederick John Perry, world's ablest amateur since 1933, making his professional debut...
...settle down as the house guest of Ransomer T. V. Soonganding out thousands of words evidently concocted by mutual agreement to dispose of China's greatest kidnapping of all time as smoothly as Britain disposed of the one and only voluntary abdication in her history (see p. 13). Sleek, polished, cosmopolitan Kidnapper Chang declared: "I am by nature rustic, surly and unpolished, an impudent lawbreaker who committed a great crime. ... I was completely unworthy to return with you, Chiang Kaishek, to Nanking, so I have followed you. ... I shall never decline what is beneficial to our country even...
...long-languishing French & Italian operas, Johnson scoured Europe for a man who could resuscitate them. In Paris he was struck by a fresh, vividly staged Fidelia; in Vienna he applauded a crisp mounting of Tannhauser. Finally in Salzburg he overtook and engaged the man responsible for both: young, sleek-haired Dr. Herbert Graf who was working with Toscanini. In his 33 years Graf has won a doctorate from Vienna University for his thesis Richard Wagner as Stage Director, staged more than 50 operas including Modernist George Antheil's Transatlantic. Known for his direct, challenging technique which he learned from...
...feature, "Rose Bowl," is what the title suggests and not much more. Since Hollywood released their first football picture some years ago, they have changed little. There still romps the sleek, cocky star fullback, who breaks the small-town girl's heart, and the second-team "regular fellow," who runs wild in the final game to carry off both the victory and the same home town girl. In the middle of this very long film the producers showed a shallow streak of guilty conscience in the person of a meek professor, who objects to his small college vying...