Word: slips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they're learning the meaning as well as the rhythm of "If Your Heart Keeps Right." Related he: "I step up in the dark of the moon in a strange village. I got no guides, no gun bearers, except my little old trombone of the Lord. I slip into Walk in Jerusalem Just Like John, slow at first and then faster . . . and before long, without my asking 'Will you abide with me or sing with me?' they are doing a shuffle and a-humming, repeating just that phrase. Soon they're surprised I got nothing...
...Average pay of waterworks superintendents in the U. S. and Canada is $4.11 per day. Deploring this fact, retiring President Frank Barbour of Boston trumpeted: "The slightest slip on the part of any one of these superintendents might result in a typhoid epidemic that would wipe out practically an entire community...
Despite Grouper Hamilton's expert stage-managing, there occurred a slip on Frank Buchman's 58th birthday last week. Arising at 4:45 a.m. for his "quiet time" of listening to God's directions, Founder Buchman looked forward to a day during which he would broadcast to England, the expenses to be paid as a birthday gift from his British followers. But that afternoon as Dr. Buchman was motoring to fulfill this engagement, the gasoline feed line of his automobile clogged, precious minutes passed and finally Grouper H. Kenaston Twitchell read the Founder's words into...
...TIME slip on this figure...
...stout Cortez with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific. . ." and I thought how silly be my mind to think first of the slip. Vain Vagabond! Thence also to note there be a mighty fine collection of Rembrandt's prints at the Fogg Museum, and also some very belles filles to show them off; but they not to find "The Philosopher" which I did seek; but bless my soul, I did find many other things...