Word: slackers
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...Chicago Civic Opera performance of Mignon, Tito Schipa, supposed to carry Gladys Swarthout off stage, let Désiré Defrère substitute in the job. Proxy Defrère stumbled, dropped her. Explained Slacker Schipa: "She is, you understand, a little heavy, I do not say she is fat, just a little heavy." Retorted Proxy Defrère, "I slipped on a tack. It was only natural I do the job. Schipa is too puny...
...munitions manufacturers whose maxim is, "the consumer is responsible for his own folly." These men will continue to prosper, barring violence to their persons, as long as students lack pride in their own work and would just as soon "let George do it" for a few dollars. One slacker in the student body tends to ruin the morale of the whole, since such a one can boast to his working comrades, "I got a B out of old so-and-so without cracking a book...
...Christmas present to 1,500 War-time agitators and draft dodgers. President Roosevelt issued an amnesty proclamation restoring civil rights to all who, convicted under the Espionage and Selective Service Acts, had served their sentences. Unaffected was the case of notorious Slacker Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, who escaped to Germany before serving sentence...
...Send a reporter to 815 Market Street if you want to see a slacker beaten up:" the city desk of the St. Louis Star was anonymously advised by telephone one day last week...
...persuaded the jury that Banker Mitchell's "dummy" stock sales had been perfectly legitimate, that the $666,666.67 which Mr. Mitchell had received from National City Co. was no taxable bonus but a loan, that his client was a financial martyr, not a tax slacker who had tried to defraud the Government of some $850,000. Well content, smart Lawyer Steuer was to be found at his office at No. 11 Broadway, working on more routine cases...