Word: slid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Opposition, like many other Oppositions, became rowdy, rowdier, most rowdy. Heated accusations (not specified) were hurled at the head of Premier Count Stephen Bethlen, Transylvanian industrial magnate. No effort of the Government and its supporters could stem the mighty, endless avalanche of abuse that slid off the asperous tongues of its enemies...
...large steamship slid alongside a Manhattan pier and disgorged four little ships-Thistle, Zenith, Echo, Betty. They were the British boats that will set their sails against U. S. craft beginning Sept. 6, for the International 6-Metre Yacht Trophy. The races will be held at Oyster Bay, L. I. under the auspices of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club...
California. Pennsylvania and Massachusetts met for Southern California honors. Tilden of Philadelphia smote Chapin of Springfield hip and thigh, though his own thigh and ankle ached from a stumble. Collegiate. Onto the courts at Eastbourne, England, strolled several young Oxonians, several young Cantabs. They undid their white knitted mufflers, slid out of their gay striped blazers. They politely volleyed with their guests-several young Elis, several young "Red Bellies" (Harvards). They conveniently trounced their guests, 15 matches to 6, politely strolled in to tea. These matches are now an annual occurrence...
...tournament where strong men wilted. Charles ("Chick") Evans Jr., of Chicago, who had ruled the West as champion eight different years, yielded this last of many major titles in the third round, by 8 and 7, and slid further than ever into the limbo that has been his of late. His conqueror, James Manion of St. Louis, trans-Mississippi champion, went down before Seckel, who has not appeared or; a golfing pinnacle since 1911, when, as a Princeton undergraduate, he became Western Champion...
...include Mrs. John Blair, Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, Mrs. James W. Gerard, Mrs. Norman H. Davis, Mrs. Abram I. Elkus, Mrs. Montgomery Hare, Mrs. David F. Houston, Mrs. Pierre Jay, Miss Amey Aldrich, and Mrs. Frank L. Polk. These are the very aristocracy of politics. Most of them have slid into the game because of wealth or husbands. These are quite a different set from the gang of women who go out and get votes and bring them home to the Party...