Word: slips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pulitzer awards are not officially announced until May. Dr. Richard Burton, chairman of the prize jury, let slip the news about Author Oliver's book in a lecture on "Types of Contemporary Literature" at the University of Minnesota. Upton Sinclair's Boston would have been a winner, he said, but for its "socialistic tendencies...
...worse day's work has been done in any Parliament! Nor any greater harm!" Sir Austen seemed actually beside himself with grief and shame. "Bilkers!" his French friends had been called "Bilkers! !" As other Conservatives followed the Foreign Secretary, all flaying Mr. Snowden and all greatly exaggerating his slip, he became positively livid with rage. "I retract not a word! I refuse to apologize!" he shrilled, emphasizing his exclamations with cane thumps. "I am sufficient of an Englishman not to be content to see my country and my people bled white for the benefit of other countries far more...
...Communism has held its own along with the Bolshevist party is a much more doubtful question, and those capitalists who had most to fear from it and were most active in their attacks against it, are already beginning to hope that by a gradual process of change Russia will slip back to capitalism and with it, the brotherhood of nations. The New Economic Policy, started in 1923 was the first definite indication of this gradual tendency away from the extreme views of Kar! Marx, and the exile of Trotsky, one of the few leaders to staunchly maintain Marx's ideas...
...Horace Payne-Townshend of Derry County, Cork. Satirist Shaw has never read the "Essay," and he does "not disfigure books by underlining them." His practice "is to make a very light dot in the margin with a pencil-tip and note the page number on the end of a slip of paper...
August in Washington, Mr. Chief Justice replied with a letter equally polite. He admitted his departure from the text, but did not think it invalidated the oath. "When I was sworn in as President by Chief Justice Fuller, he made a similar slip," Mr. Taft recalled, "but in those days when there was no radio, it was observed only in the Senate chamber where I took the oath. . . . You are mistaken in your report of what I did say. What I said was 'preserve, maintain and protect. . . . You may attribute the variation to the defect...