Word: slips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike most of his predecessors, President Roosevelt does not hesitate to take vacations from Washington while Congress is in session. Last week, after seven weeks of a very dull session, he decided to slip away for four or five days of fun. Against his trip was the fact that it meant postponing his recommendation for new taxes, which Congress was impatiently awaiting in order to perform its election-year duty of going home as quickly as possible. In favor of it was the fact that Secretary Morgenthau was absent attending the funeral of his mother-in-law, and the President...
Hall was not a man to let the rewards of his invention slip through his fingers. He gave millions to Oberlin and other institutions, collected rare rugs, had a platoon of servants in his big house. Although he never drank, smoked or married, his health failed in his 40's and he died at 50 of a spleen disorder...
Another change of interest was that making it unnecessary for substitutes to carry a slip onto the field giving their number and the number of the man whose place they were taking. It was the feeling of the Committee that no teams had tried to violate the substitution rule, and that in the future the umpire could easily keep track of the number of men on the field, and the men who had already played and would not be eligible for re-substitution...
...would seem then that an earth tremor sufficiently violent to cause these supporting beams to slip out of their slings would be all that is required to detach the floors and precipitate glass flowers, meteorites, and pale-ontological exhibits into the basement. In any case Geology students working in the Museum have long been advised to depart from the promises at the first rumblings...
Result: His Majesty on four evenings in succession gave his guards the slip. With a red-haired woman on his arm who appeared to be either his red-haired Jewish mistress, Magda Lupescu, or her famed double, King Carol ordered night club employes to "act as if you did not know my identity." Sedate and dominant, Mme Lupescu is not adept at Argentine rhythms. His Majesty, after sitting out one tango, called to a brunette to come and dance with him. He half rose, then was tugged firmly back into his chair by his red-head...