Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...struck him as a "stunning design," formed the basis of the Stalin-like figure. The two Leftist pilots, said he, symbolized the spirit of self-sacrifice in aeronautical advance rather than political ideology. As for the red star, some one of his many assistants had probably made a slip. Lieut. Colonel Brehon Burke Somervell, New York City's driving WPAdministrator, promptly ordered three of the four murals taken down, cremated in a potbellied WPA stove...
...other Hollywood leading man of George Brent's stature appeared in so unassuming a picture, it would suggest that either his studio or his agent was quarreling with him or that he had begun to slip. In fact George Brent is on excellent terms with his agent, Minna Wallis (sister of Warner's production chief, Hal Wallis), Warner is happily paying him $3,000 a week, and his popularity was never greater. His willingness to work in almost any kind of picture is only one element in Cinemactor Brent's reputation as a man of mystery...
...best that Frenchmen could hope for was to be allowed to live in peace in Adolf Hitler's Europe. And in Hitler's Europe France faced an unknown future, blaming for the past, not Hitler, but her own people and leaders who had let slip through their fingers the heritage of Louis...
...pink slip next month anyway...
...Working on the Project; Lost My Job on the Project; Don't Take Away My PWA ["Mr. President, listen to what I have to say; take away the whole alphabet, but don't take away the PWA"]. Columbia had a WPA Rag, a Pink Slip Blues low-moaned by oldtime Ida Cox. But WPA was different. Last week it was banned...