Word: slickest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kind of weather, across a land whose ground communications, always bad, were increasingly disrupted by civil war. Recently, the airlines' main job has been retreat: month after month, they flew harried Nationalist ministers from city to city in flight from advancing Reds. Last week, in one of the slickest coups of the civil war, the Communists grabbed the better part of the Nationalist-owned airlines...
...year's slickest shows opened in a Manhattan gallery last week. The paintings, by 62-year-old Tsuguharu Foujita, were as clear and dry as the Martinis served at the opening, though not so powerful...
...Paul Montgomery: "I have a piece of bad news this morning." The news: there would not be any September issue-or any August issue, either, even though the presses were ready to roll. Without making a move to telegraph its knockout punch, McGraw-Hill had closed out the biggest, slickest and most expensive of its 34 magazines...
...Buenos Aires newsstands last week, the newest and slickest magazine was a monthly called Argentina. Packed with pictures and color, it had a heavy concentration of anti-American articles. They discussed the iniquities of U.S. comic strips, the horrors of U.S. "boastfulness," and U.S. failure to recognize Argentine greatness. Argentina, aimed at the Argentine intelligentsia, carried little advertising. Its editor was Secretary of Education Oscar Ivanissevich, 53, onetime ambassador...
...come upon the bemonocled Whistler sporting an absurd little cane and striking his dandy's pose. But most of the Edwardians represented at the museum (the Phelps Stokeses, the Wyndham sisters, Mme. Gautreau, Miss Ada Rehan, Henry Marquand) had sought out, or been sought out by, the slickest and most fashionable painter of their day to immortalize them -John Singer Sargent...