Word: slips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exhausted catnapper was M. Aristide Briand?for the eighth time an ex-Premier of France. When Sir Austen's train actually drew in, the indomitable Aristide was on the platform, ready to slip an arm into that of his British friend. Later they left for Geneva together by the same train. M. Briand made it clear, however, that he would not attend the formal League session but merely the far more important preliminaries...
...important that the world know this. They publicly proclaimed themselves "damned souls," and waited for the heavens to fall. But the heavens fell not. Nor did the waters rise and the thunder rumble and the lightning strike them in their tracks. Not so much as a slip of paper from the dean's office fluttered down upon them. Though they proclaimed that the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism, Inc. (Freeman Hapgood, general secretary), had welcomed them to membership, Dean Charles Hoeing did not so much as signify that he had ever heard of them or of Atheist Hapgood...
...greatest public good at the least public cost. Secretary Hoover himself appeared at another meeting, told his hearers that the country's educational plant is greater than any other plant it operates, warned: "If we were to suppress our educational system for a single generation, we should slip back 4,000 years in human progress...
...francs. That was the greatest number of francs ever* exchangeable for a dollar in the history of the world. Then the firm of Morgan loaned the French Government $100,000,000; and one could get only some 14 francs for the dollar. Last spring the franc began to slip badly again. Last week the American Express Co., at Paris, was paying out approximately? 28 francs for the dollars which its clients smilingly proffered. In Les Nights Clubs Americains, atop Montmartre, the good-old-bad-old times had come again?though indeed the quarts of champagne in that vicinity were being...
...excellent thing in itself for it makes up for any deficiencies of setting. But where atmosphere and setting are sufficiently powerful to reach the imagination of the audience, then it is better to tell the tale without flourishes. "Moana" gives each person in the audience a chance to slip down in his chair and dream his own dreams, with Polynesia unrolling a fairy land before his eyes...