Word: slips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...punchboards referred to are lotteries conducted in drug stores, candy shops, shoe-parlors. The gambler, after paying a fee, punches a numbered slip of paper out of its cell in a square honeycomb. The right number wins a prize. Among the prizes obtainable by school-attending minors were, allegedly, revolvers...
...pronounced these words, Frederick Alfred Wallis, New York Commissioner of Correction, crumpled a slip of paper in his hand and scowled earnestly at the reporters. It was rather a surprising speech, for Commissioner Wallis was moved to offer this dramatic sacrifice not for liberty, home or the flag, but merely for a mixture of lipoids, proteins and vitamins called "narcosan...
...take it, largely for the purpose of forming a definite conclusion as to the strength of this interest that the meeting today has been called. Under these circumstances it would indeed be unfortunate if the attractive plan which the Administration has to offer is allowed to slip into the discard merely because of the inertia of that part of the student body which has at present no opportunity for taking their meals quietly and in the congenial company of interesting friends...
...Buchan's built around one of the incidents. This self-plagiarism Mr. Buchan acknowledges in a note in the front, but it seems rather a pity that he should have used old, and really unessential material, in the making of the book. Besides this, there is one slip in the writing where we find the one-armed corporal throwing dice to pass the time, "right hand against left." But these faults do not materially affect a really fine story
...only heightened Stephen's determination to have Sally Penmarch, and the betrothal of Preston Baimbridge, the one man Cordelia had fixed upon, to Sally Penmarch "fazed" Cordelia no whit, even on the wedding morning. As her diary shows, she was calm in desperation and when she saw Sally slip off for a last canter alone, she sent Stephen after her with a mixture of humor and impatience. When Stephen failed to dissuade Sally, who loved him, really, after an argument in the woods that kept the wedding guests on tenterhooks, Cordelia's love for Preston was sufficient...