Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tarry in Istanbul, but took off forty minutes later for Ankara, where Turkey's President Ismet Inönü awaited him anxiously. Turkey is the door that the old conspirator must open, and Turkey was about to learn whether he meant to burst it, pry it, or slip in the back way and unlock...
...same direction as Stalinism and Naziism. The New Deal is a phase of the transition process from capitalism to managerial society." Readers of The Managerial Revolution may wonder whether Author Burnham does not carry neutrality too far-not once in his brilliant exposition does he make a slip, write the word fascist instead of manager...
...House dance next Monday, which is to be graced by the presence of Count Basie and some fifteen associated Kansas City virtuosi. The gentlemen of the dance committee are charging a pretty stiff admission fee, particularly for stags. Evidently they intend to discourage jazz lovers who may wish to slip in just to hear the Basie musicale without engaging in any female entanglements, as well as the avowed wolves who inevitably infest such soirees. The Count may no longer be the wild and woolly nobleman he was in the days when Herschal Evans and Lester Young were attempting to outdo...
...slightly different role from any in which she has heretofore appeared, Counclia Otis Skinner proves her versatility with a skillful adaptation of her immense natural charm to a character of risque life and lines. At no time does she slip away from Julia Lambert, the famous English actress who starts out drifting along on the wave of her success and ends up by overcoming her self with the courage of a truly great actress. The story is not half so deep as this might suggest, but Miss Skinner does manage to add something more substantial than is apparent...
...Saints wore star-spangled, red-white-&-blue uniforms (which made Showman Slip Madigan's St. Mary's-of-California gang look like dun-quiet Quakers), went in for fancy formations like the Suzy-Q shift. Coach Simms got front-page publicity by telling big-name colleges that they were hypocrites, that his team was frankly professional (though he gave them nothing but "room, education, travel and all the food they...