Word: slips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Indeed, when seven members of California's Bohemian Club* were asked to write on a slip of paper the name of the most potent westerner of the present generation, five of the ballots bore the name of Paul Shoup...
Enclosed you will find a slip, "Choosing the National Flower...
WHEN MISS BRAZIL APPEARS STAGE TONIGHT [the first wire from Galveston read] WILL WEAR SEVERE BLACK CHIFFON GOWN ON PINK SLIP WITH GARLAND ROSES RUNNING DIAGONALLY ACROSS BREAST STOP NO HEAD DRESS FLESH COLORED HOSE BLACK SHOES ALSO DIAMOND NECKLACE AND DIAMOND AND SAPPHIRE BROOCH CENTER CHEST...
...prove, at the end, that he is worthy of a degree with honors. In order that the award of degrees may be faithful to this theory, which is a sound one, it seems unjust that such a man should miss the prize he has earned because of a slip in perhaps, his sophomore year, when he was not yet of honors calibre. As long as, a senior's course record is satisfactory, it should not prove a belated handicap when the race is won and the medals are waiting...
...Mayor Hague prepared to go forward. He had already twice defied his inquisitors to pry into his "private affairs." Well circulated among Republican politicians in the State was a report that he would defy them once more, send his case hopelessly to the U. S. Supreme Court, then slip quietly away to England, where he had bought a permanent home and banked a fortune...