Word: sleekness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last September, merchandisers spoke of his "business daring." No other important Parisian had ever dared sell retail in Manhattan in competition with stores like Saks-Fifth Avenue which bought from him wholesale in Paris. The sort of ladies who made up M. Rochas' customers babbled incoherently of his sleek hair and out-of-door complexion. Last week the ladies were back buying at Saks-Fifth Avenue and talking of somebody else's outdoor complexion, and again there was no branch of an important Paris dressmaker in Manhattan...
...ever devised will not prevent the house from getting its inexorable percentage, not only permit their clients to play systems but to take notes on the winning numbers, notes on which the systems depend. This week the Casino at Monte Carlo is even placing at the disposal of its sleek patrons a number of machines, designed by Prince Johannes zu Loewenstein, which will make such note-taking easier...
...foreign nation, speedily fled to Nazi Germany. In 1934 a Congressional Committee investigated the Friends of New Germany, found it "for ail practical purposes the American section of the Nazi party." The Friends changed this name to Amerikadeutscher Volksbund in 1936, resumed functioning under the leadership of a sleek, pompous, garrulous ex-chemist named Fritz Kuhn whose offices in Manhattan are decorated by portraits of Franklin Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler...
...achieve the first, Bund members are urged to patronize only stores run by Aryans who give members stamps entitling them to a discount relative to the amount they purchase. To achieve the second, Bundsmen have thus far done no more than make impassioned homesick speeches, parade with wooden guns. Sleek Mr. Kuhn, who looks and talks like an embryo Göring, last week failed to lead his organization through its latest crisis. He was in Brussels for an "antiCommunist" meeting with two other equally unsuccessful but considerably more authentic advocates of totalitarian government-Belgium...
...Munich, a reception for sleek Baron Gottfried von Cramm, Germany's best amateur tennist, was suddenly canceled. Reason: Tennist von Cramm had been arrested on suspicion of violating paragraph 175 of the Reich criminal code, which refers to moral delinquencies...