Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...following order "Sweet Sue," "Blues in B Flat," "Tea for two," "Ja Da," and "The Sheik" were attacked. One of the reed men, a startling cross between Johnny Dodds and Joe Marsala blasted out a machine gun-like obligatto in answer to the adept growlings of the slip horn, while the cornetist, feeling no doubt that he was being attacked from both sides, lashed out wildly with punchy, agitated jabs. During these gyrations, the pianist managed the almost superhuman job of bringing order out of chaos. It was a never-ending source of amazement to the bystanders that...
Whether it was completely digested or not, it was obvious to sideline quarterbacks that it was the spice of Harlow coaching that enabled the Crimson to slip by its heavier, more experienced opponents. Even the superb line play of Eddie Davis, Ned Dewey, Chuck Glynn, and Jack Fisher would not have won the ball game without that last-minute trick of inserting southpaw, Tom Gannon, to fake a left end run and fling a pass just over the goal...
Rejection Slip. In Olympia, Wash., Bachelor Robert Wright, veteran of World Wars I & II, applied for a pension, was advised by the War Department that he had been killed in action, told that his widow should apply...
Permit me to 1) express my gratification for your piece on Mary McLeod Bethune (TIME, July 22) and 2) slip TIME a detonating A-bomb for using the term "Negress" which made my brown face take on a reddish...
...misquotation, as J. P. Morgan meaningfully pointed out to.his partner Thomas W. Lamont in 1936 when Lamont made a slip before the Nye Investigation Committee. The correct quote: "The love of money is the root of all evil" (I Timothy...