Word: slips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government of China," a group of politicians and generals with headquarters at Nanking, nearby. Last week this group were preparing to hold, early in January, a plenary session of the Nationalist party congress?to concoct war plans. Since there was danger, however, that some of the minority delegates might slip away, thus making it impossible for the leaders to obtain a quorum, the military police of Nanking were instructed, last week, to detain forcibly any delegate who sought to leave the city...
After dinner, movies are announced to the mild disgust of Miss Perkins and Mr. Sutherland. Quietly they slip on deck and then descend a companionway to explore the ship. They come to the engine room. They discuss the engine. The engine replies by starting to turn over. Miss Perkins and Mr. Sutherland, rightly assuming that the yacht is in motion, are agitated, try to make their way back to their host, find that they are locked below deck. A pretty kettle of fish...
...They thought that Dundee might die. Then the stranger appeared and spoke to the lad: "Things are not very certain with you and if you want to take my advice, you had better hold fast to the bed. If you are not very careful, Dundee, it will slip away from under you." So Dundee held fast to the bed and soon was well...
...name the players? Not we. We sit in the Stadium with our minds higher in the clouds than the ever present airplane, our thoughts richly speculative. The article says, for example, "In a moment of thrilling suspense the ball was hurled down the field and the catcher let it slip from his hands. Here was a situation. . . The coach stood up on the side lines and with a refreshingly unsentimentalized characterization, told the player he had made an error." This is almost literature...
...word "inland" in reference to Beaumont, Tex., was a slip-up on my part, so far as I know. It did not belong in the paragraph. I stand convicted of this offense, thus, by one word, robbing the book of all truth...