Word: slips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first period saw the Elis roll up an apparently commanding lead when the aggressive Yale forward line ran the Crimson backs ragged to score twice. Fletcher and Sleath were the goal-shooters, both taking passes from Ives in sharp scrimmages to slip the ball past Thomas into the Harvard cage. Early in the second quarter Carr counted on a beautiful kick from the sidelines that shot into the goal at an acute angle. At the first-half intermission the Blue...
...came of it (pp. 226-227), when that redoubtable Puritan figures as he does in the New England Tragedies? And, surely, Joel Barlow's Columbiad, even though it may be "mercifully forgotten," need not be pushed further into oblivion by misspelling its title. This, no doubt, is a mere slip in proof-reading. So, of course, but none the less diverting for that, is Mr. Gorman's new promulgation of the classic "howler" that the metre of Hiawatha is "trochaic diameter...
...event in itself is merely another of the malodorous hits of news which so often decorate the newspapers, the fact that this particular affair is directly attributable to the church will certainly cause much comment from the ranks of the unbelievors Always waiting to take advantage of any slip made by their arch-enemy, they will never let such a juicy morsel as this slip through their fingers. Pointing to this as an example of the too often misdirected energies of the church, they will as usual cry with alarm at the very thought of the church holding a large...
Among the veterans of previous Triangle Club casts and choruses will be included Ave Sherry, Secretary of the Club, who is directing the dancing and playing the leading feminine role, William Brenton and Franklin Gary, of comedy fame, and "Jake" Slagle, who will slip from the position of star half back to veteran chorus girl...
...hint, women of extreme temperature waiting in cafes, hotel lobbies and upper chambers, Govett Bradier, oil baron extraordinary, returns to complete the theft of an associate's wife, Vida Carew. He is convalescent from malaria but chronically passion-ridden. What time he hangs around Tampico, small bright knives slip out of sheer hosiery and into brawny thoraces; frost accumulates on silver buckets and shakers; glasses tink; bottles crash on skulls; one girl smokes cigars, nude; another refuses $100. After many sultry but incessantly swift, surprising events, involving a lot of good Mexican history and accurate swearing, Govett Bradier boards...