Word: slips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gothic pillars, the staunch lilies, and the choir boys resplendent in what F. P. A. once called "red surpluses". When the collection plate came round, even that had a hallowed tone in keeping with the sacred morning. As it passed the Crimson editor, piled high with bounty, a white slip of paper detached itself from the pile of money and fell to the floor. It was a check for ten dollars, crisp and sea-colored, signed by a well-known New York attorney. It was drawn on the National City Bank, and the donor, moved by the holiness of Easter...
Trader Magids has been driving an honest Arctic bargain for 20 years. It has to be honest, he explains, because Eskimos are not concerned with how far they go for their shopping. A small slip is likely to drive away a customer who came 400 miles by dog team, make him go 500 miles the next time to trade with someone else. No cash register affair, honesty in the Magids chain is a complicated matter involving as much as 15 years of credit. The Eskimos and, in Candle, the white residents bring in furs, gold, seal oil and reindeer meat...
...voyage when a great, smoke-like cloud suddenly covered the entire dirigible as the four crude-oil motors started. Spectators who feared the ship was afire soon learned that the cloud was only a two-year's accumulation of dust blown from the envelope in the slip stream...
...Walshes got clubby with Chicago's Mrs. Potter Palmer, and Evalyn was allowed to touch her stomacher. When they let Evalyn go abroad on her own to study French and art and music she had a wonderful time buying clothes and automobiles and giving her chaperones the slip. And she had a strong sense of curiosity. "I learned most of what has been helpful . . . from peeking or from bolder observations." When she was bereft of rouge and lipstick she learned how to get color by licking the cover of a Baedeker. And when she discovered that her family...
Investigation found Colonel Apted aware of the slip but calm, after years of experience. Apparently the time-piece annually goes into a decline, necessitating oiling, coddling, and a certain amount of judicious play with the speed regulator. All will be well shortly, however...