Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know something about the slips that are risked between reading and writing for a fast news schedule, and I do not take this slip that got by as a fair sample of TIME'S policies or practices. But as a fair sample of these, I shall appreciate 'your setting the record straight for your readers...
...next produced the show with the fourth longest run: Arsenic and Old Lace. From these two projects alone, each has made roughly a million-with plenty of gold still to be mined. The two men don't like to talk finances, claim that most of their earnings just slip away. When a columnist wrote that Lindsay's money had "gone to his head," Lindsay phoned him, said "Thanks, I've been wondering where it went...
...comedy star (Merle Oberon) sprains her ankle and is treated in her dressing room by a handsome French interne (Charles Korvin). Ah, Paris-with the horse chestnuts in bloom! Miss Oberon's touring troupe moves on, but she has decided to be a poor Parisian housewife. The years slip by and Dr. Korvin obviously isn't getting rich at his research; but Merle seems happy with her wifely chores and her roly-poly daughter. Very suddenly, one day, Dr. Korvin suspects his wife of infidelity, and without asking for explanations, he runs off with the baby...
Moreover, the President had let tried and experienced men such as Economic Stabilizer Will Davis and FEA Boss Leo Crowley slip out of the Government just when he most needed men with governmental training and background...
...Hickory got so mad he roared: "My name is Andrew Jackson, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with snapping turtle. I can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride a streak of lightning, slip without a scratch down the honey locust, whip my weight in wildcats, hug a bear too close for comfort and eat anybody opposed to the COMMON MAN! Come on, boys, let's get Nicholas Biddle...