Word: slips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...father, the late General William Booth, as commander-in-chief of the Salvation Army, the younger Booth was presumed to have chosen his own successor in traditional Salvation Army fashion. The present incumbent, according to tradition, names his favorite brother or sister "in arms," writing his choice on a slip of paper, which he files with his solicitors, which is not opened until Death necessitates a substitution. But William Bramwell Booth's aides-de-camp would have done with the Booth dynasty. Although William Bramwell Booth has two sons, Generals Wycliffe Booth and Bernard Booth, there was the fear...
...between times, a Publix melange of girls and nonsense titled "Bubbles" beguiles the audience. The girls, however, slip up in their routine dances now and then, one of them actually took a heavy fall, and the song and patter men act somewhat nonplussed at being on the big time: Fannie Brice, America's leading comedienne (don't ask which direction) dashes on for 15 minutes and completes the bill in a manner inconvenient to describe...
...Pound point was that while the Messrs. Roberts and Pomerene are able enough as chancery lawyers and did well in the civil suits against Sinclair, they are no great shakes as criminal lawyers. From the criminal charges against them Sinclair and Fall have after long delays and many a slip comfortably escaped so far. Said Dean Pound: "Did Sinclair keep the same lawyers in the criminal case that he had employed in the chancery proceedings? He has not. He hired the best criminal lawyers he could find. Chancery or civil practice is very widely different from criminal practice...
After a day of uncertainty, they saw the lava slip slowly down the slope. Little jets of steam hissed from the mountain's side. The 10,000 inhabitants reluctantly prepared to leave. White surpliced priests marched chanting part way up the volcano. In supplication and prayer they bore relics of St. Vitus, born in Sicily, or St. Leonardo, their patron saint...
...blackboards, positive claims were made with caution. At 7:15 p. m. Pacific time, about the moment that Executive Editor Swope of the arch-Democratic New York World was handing a yellow slip to a reporter, conceding the election, the Hoover quotation at Palo Alto was only 206 electoral votes. The total popular vote was even at three million for each nominee...