Word: slips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...source of unwaining pleasure to see the burden of the action slip from the chief actor to the subordinates without a sickening sense of unintended comic relief, even without any unpleasant realization that they are subordinates. To Horatio, always a sympathetic part, Mr. Lewis brings a personality and a voice that suggest more than a little of the charm which bound Hamlet to him. So small a part as the First Player was made memorable by Mr. Collamores delivery of Aeneas' tale to Dido, and his ability subtly to distinguish the interwoven parts he played. As for Polonius, though...
...Lamp is, we suspect, none other than Hard Work. Not content with merely duplicating the efforts of past years, the board has added new features which we are told will greatly increase the usefulness of the volume. Although, to quote the old proverb, "There is many a slip twixt the out and the lip", we are confident that the "Register" has positively taken a new lease on life...
...order to obtain books the borrower should look up in the Card Catalogue the book which he wants, to ascertain the call-number of shelf mark. He should then make out a slip for each book wanted; a buff colored slip if the book is for outside use, or a blue slip if it is for use in the Reading Room...
Time and time again we hear that the purpose of a college is to teach men to think. But it must be admitted that the majority of large courses let the student slip by with but little mental effort. The lecturer cannot but be impersonal, and many listen to him as they would to a speaker on Boston Common; with little attention and no thought. In a small course it is different. The student meets the professor personally, and has opportunity to discuss with him any point about which he is doubtful. Besides, he cannot but feel that the professor...
...Only one more suggested now and then the weary, wizened routine, the treadmill acting, that is the other pitfall of stock theatres. The rest came alertly, intelligently, to their parts, shaped them into such characters as the thinly sketched play permitted; had not only learned their "lines" without slip or hesi- tation, with well distributed emphasis and shadings, but also gave their speeches conversational air. The whole representation moved in brisk, elastic pace, free from stumble or jolt, from obvious patching and smoothing