Word: slips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More through circumstance than anything else, Mr. Sheean early acquired a reputation as a dare-devil newshawk, in the best Floyd Gibbons manner. He was in Morocco during the uprisings of the 1920's, and managed several times to slip through the frontier between the French and the native troops. He had escapades in Spain which gave him an insight into the Rivera revolution. While a correspondent in Paris, he observed Poincare at close range; the only mental conception he retained was one of contempt. He was in Geneva when the ill-fated Protocol was introduced; his cynicism regarding...
Throughout the afternoon, while the aspirants worked in groups, under regular and volunteer coaches, including Rae Crowther, Mike Palm, Fesler, Jimmy Knox, and Cliff Gallagher, Harlow himself seemed to be watching everything at once. No slip-shod play escaped his notice--nor for that matter did a good performance miss a barked grunt of "That...
Perhaps the little yellow slips passed by the Harvard men to the Senator in the Chamber have had something to do with the metamorphosis. One slip cautioned, "Don't gesticulate so much." Another read, "Don't let your voice rise so high; don't be so vehement...
...Were astounded at a slip of the tongue by social-climbing Dominions Secretary James Henry ("Jim") Thomas. That onetime engine greaser seemed to imply that His Majesty's Government plan to avoid the general election constitutionally due by November 1936, at the latest, by declaring the Empire in a "state of emergency" under which the National Government could rule for three years more...
Even when the foreman uttered the words that meant "electric chair," the courtroom doors were not unlocked. Every newshawk in the room was prepared for that emergency. A reporter down in front raised a red handkerchief, and a messenger at the rear door shoved a red slip of paper through the sill. One newshawk, poised to hurl colored iron balls through the window pane, was thwarted by lowered window blinds. Nerviest of all was Reporter Francis Toughill of the Philadelphia Record, who boldly scraped the insulation off the courtroom telephone wire, hooked in a telephone headset. Crouched in the balcony...