Word: slips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...average inventor has a hard life and it is a rare instance for him to reap the rewards of his invention as I have done." So said one Anatol Josepho of New York last week, a few moments after pocketing a slip of paper upon which were written the idyllic figures $1,000,000. His invention was a "quarter-in-the-slot" machine. Out of it comes, not gum or hairpins, but a strip of eight sepia photographs, each 2 in. x 1½ in., showing the quarter-dropper in whatever eight poses it has pleased him to strike...
...another barrister, a very well educated young Indian named C. R. Das. That fellow once made a legal speech for 19 consecutive days. And he never once failed to talk sense. For those entire 19 days, he advanced the soundest kind of legal arguments. He only made one little slip, by which we were able to catch...
...American who has made a name for himself during the last 50 or 60 years. Every autograph recalls the name of some statesman, author, educator, scholar or other leader in the world of action or thought. It is a comprehensive review in American History, just to let the pages slip through one's fingers...
...Rain (Douglas MacLean, Shirley Mason). Pants drop down, men slip on the sidewalks, a goat butts a marine off a battleship, all the principal characters chase themselves around the countryside without once stumbling into a funny situation. The hero marries the heroine...
Sergeant Stokes declared that he had copied the slip from one of Lieutenant Murray's memoranda which had probably been destroyed...