Word: slips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Manhattanites recalled a time when, for many moons, the Messrs. Shubert similarly banned the rotund, genial presence of Critic Alexander Woollcott* in any of their Broadway pleasure palaces; recalled ruses, disguises, trickery resorted to by the genial Woollcott to deceive the Messrs. Shubert and slip in unperceived; recalled the waning of that feud, a reconciliation and Critic Woollcott's presence again regularly gracing an aisle seat whenever the Messrs. Shubert had something new wherewith to beguile the public in its idle hours...
Dooley went into the Yale game last week as the regular Dartmouth quarterback. In the first minute of play he made a costly fumble, which led to a Yale score. Fumbles are, however, excusable. No sane coach would drop a man from the team for a slip of that sort...
...with more assertion. He backed up what he said with proof. Those who didn't believe him could go to "Alice in Wonderland". He made specific references, which really proved that the book in question was "Alice Through the Looking Glass". The Democrats will doubtless make much of his slip. But anyone can see that this is beside the point...
...hairs point towards the back of the skiis and this enabled the Yakets to walk up hills without the use of skii poles, for the fur bushes up when there is a backward pressure on it, thus presenting a roughened surface, which sticks to the snow and will not slip...
...example", said Professor Babbitt, "anyone can convince himself of the startling relevancy to existing conditions of Aristotle's 'Politics', especially now that we have begun to slip our constitutional moorings and to drift towards a direct democracy. There are passages in it as modern as the morning newspaper, and at least a hundred times more sensible. Take the passage: 'Such legislation (against private property) may have a specious appearance of benevolence; men readily listen to it, and are easily induced that in some wonderful manner everybody will become everybody's friend, especially when some one is heard denouncing the evils...