Word: slips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pulled punches, of its tragic ending. They seemed to miss the brilliant economy, the unfailing feeling for composition, the somewhat abstract treatment of a legendary story. Probably they are movie critics be- cause they reflect tastes of the movie public. This public will probably reject Siegfried; but this rejection slip in no way implies lack of cinematographic merit...
...Middlesex Hospital's official blood-supply man. Is it an old dodderer from whose veins the tingle of life has ebbed? A young slip of a girl, anaemic, wan, ghosty-eyed? Frederick George Lee bares his flesh, lets his stout heart pump good red blood into the sufferer's frame and for his office receives a goodly fee. In the past three years he has done that 24 times...
...review of the "Day of Atonement is quite excellent. I am sorry, though, that the reviewer allowed the "Anglo" to slip away from the "Catholic" when he describes the women in whose house Eli became a Christian. An Anglo-Catholic is quite another thing from a Roman Catholic, and that a Jewish novelist, such as Louis Golding, should see the difference, really should have been brought into the review...
Because of the rain, the field (at Hurlingham) was mud, a pony slipped; because of the slip, Captain J. B. Dening of the British Army's polo team fell on his poll and suffered a slight concussion of the brain. No one, however, went so far as to suggest that it was because of this lamentable accident that the U. S. team won by 6 goals to 4 the second and deciding game of their series (TiME, June 29) against the British. The former was better mounted, more vigorous. Through the gray drizzle of the afternoon, ambassadors and noblemen...
...illusionism. If "The Moon is a Gong" is of the same pattern as "Processional", with characters reduced to readily comprehensible types, conducting their impossible business to the strains of a the less jazz band, we may rest assured that the play chosen by the Dramatic Club is a slip shed evasion of the method which its author confesses himself incompetent to handle...