Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other hand, Charles Dorning, the quondam Captain of the Pinafore, let many an opportunity of building the Captain into a sympathetic and believable character slip by, although his singing, too, was superb. The one more unfortunate bit of casting was that of Helen Roberts as Josephine, daughter to the Captain, beloved of Ralph Rackstraw, but promised to Sir Joseph Porter. Miss Roberts possesses a fine set of high notes, but she all to frequently let her coloratura get away from her and succeeded in casting her words into some oblivion above the proscenium...
With the revelation that upperclassmen living in the Yard next year will be given non-resident House privileges, the House masters have at long last decided to assume their share of the College's over-crowding. It is unfortunate that the masters let this peak year slip by, when the Union was jammed as never before. Meal lines at the theoretically "freshman" enter were of magnitude that threatened to obscure the highly-important activities program, and it seemed clearly up to the Houses to take at least the exiles living in Claverly and Apley. But the Houses contented themselves with...
Comeback Money. In Indianapolis, an eight-year-old moviegoer lifted $1 from Phillip Hoyt, bought some candy, got nabbed as he tried to slip the change back into Hoyt's pocket...
...next day Dozier learned that his story for TIME had been killed in its entirety. The Government had imposed a tight censorship on all communications-except for unaccountable slip-ups like Correspondent Mac Johnson's prearranged daily telephone call from his paper, the New York Herald Tribune. The call came through on schedule the first night of the insurrection and, with Dozier holding a candle for him to read by, Johnson got off a first-person account before the error was discovered...
...teammates, fielding worse than at any time this season, finally came to his support in the ninth and pushed two runs around the bases. It was too little, though, for Crimson errors let four runs slip over in the first, third, and fourth innings. Godin was meanwhile working smoothly, allowing only two hits in those frames and closing the door completely from there on. Only two visitors reached late in the last five frames, these on a walk and an error...