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"A what?"

"A slicker"

"What the devil's that?"

"Well, it's so that--that--there's a lot of theh I am more than you are"

"Who is one? What makes you one?"

An of it is when a fellow slicks his hair back ater"

"Like Carstairs?"

"Yes--sure He's a slicker"

They spent two evenings getting an exact definition The slicker was good-looking or clean-looking; he had brains, social brains, that is, and he used all et ahead, be popular, admired, and never in trouble He dressed well, was particularly neat in appearance, and derived his name from the fact that his hair was inevitably worn short, soaked in water or tonic, parted in the middle, and slicked back as the current of fashion dictated The slickers of that year had adopted tortoise-shell spectacles as badges of their slickerhood, and this nize that Amory and Rahill never h school, always a little wiser and shrewder than his conte his cleverness carefully concealed

Amory found the slicker a e, when the outline became so blurred and indeterminate that it had to be subdivided many times, and became only a quality Amory's secret ideal had all the slicker qualifications, but, in addition, courage and tremendous brains and talents--also Amory conceded him a bizarre streak that was quite irreconcilable to the slicker proper

This was a first real break from the hypocrisy of school tradition The slicker was a definite ele intrinsically fro man"

"THE SLICKER"