Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When asked about selling "stimulants" to college members under 21, the manager of one store said. "Theoretically minors don't got the stuff, but a few slip under the wire because we can't ask them all their ages as soon as they walk in the door. We could get in big trouble if some boy got in a jam sometime, and it came out we had sold him liquor, even if we never knew...
...fatal slip into sentiment the Senior Controller of Programs of the British Broadcasting Corp. was fired last week. The Senior Controller, Basil Edward Nicolls, did not himself make the slip; it was made by Christopher Stone, a brother-in-law of Novelist Compton Mackenzie. It consisted in wishing the King of Italy a happy birthday by radio and adding: "I don't think any of us wish him anything but good, poor soul...
Coffee beans have been used all through the weekend as a means of lotting the University know that the Ball existed. Some five hundred envelopes, each containing two or three beans and a slip of paper with a telephone number were dropped at strategic spots such as the Stadium on Saturday afternoon...
Proofreader: "Slip 47. Jedha, the she-camel, was Jedhah on Slip 40." Lawrence: "She was a splendid beast." Proofreader: "Slip 78-Sherif Abd el Mayin of Slip 68 becomes el Main, el Mayein, el Muein, el Mayin, and el Muyein."Lawrence: "Good egg. I call this really ingenious."Wacky and whacky can also be spelled wackie, whackie, wackey, whackey, wacquey, whaquey, wakki...
...majority of the nation has voted Franklin Roosevelt the man who should be President of the U.S. But that thrice-repeated vote has not quieted the suspicions of those throughout the nation who have an uneasy feeling that Mr. Roosevelt, under cover of the emergency, is trying "to slip something over" on democracy-socialism, collectivism or regimentation...