Word: slips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...able Post-Dispatch all apologies for a most lamentable tongue-slip...
...Paris to Berlin, Berlin to Warnemunde, on the Baltic; and at Warnemunde slid on the ferry that was to carry the train across an arm of the sea to Denmark. Six hours more, and they would be in Copenhagen. Practically nothing more could happen, unless the royal car should slip off the ferry into the sea. This very nearly had occurred on a previous occasion and worried trainmen roped and chained the train securely to the track. The ferry left the pier, King Christian sighed with relief, inserted himself in the royal berth, went to sleep...
...title story concerns a middle-aged Manchester merchant who is threatened with paralysis. Determined not to live in half measures and die a lingering death, he hurries to Switzerland while his resolution is still high, there to climb his favorite mountain by an almost impossible route. If he should slip a foothold, or lose his ice-axe, while making every honest effort to climb, it would be fate, and not cowardly suicide. Perched perilously on a vertical boulder of ice, exhausted, he is on the verge of loosening hand and toe grip when he hears a call of distress from...
...splits and cracks. Thus the transportation of marble is ticklish, and cannot be done with casual maneuvering as can steel girders. Sculptors exercise prodigious care in moving marble statuary from studios to sites. One fissure will ruin the labor of years, and one fissure may be produced by the slip of one gawkish moving...
...Toscanini was late, there followed a string of substitute conductors - Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Fritz Reiner, Arthur Honegger, Hans Lange, Bernardino Molinari. The results were adequate but not memorable. Yet the houses were sold-out. Subscribers had bought in advance for the entire season so that they should by no sorry slip miss Toscanini...