Word: slips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quite unable to guide students from Oxford and Divinity Streets to their classes, for she had forgotten to record the hour last night, or at least had let it slip by too quickly. Twenty minutes fast all morning, she sent students and professors askew. Colonel Apted and his men were fortunately able to convince her of her folly later in the day and the Colonel feels he can prevent her from going wrong again...
...There can be no holier task than merciless punishment!" clarioned the Party newsorgan Izvestia, lapsing by a slip into pious language. All Soviet papers emphasized that as soon as Dear Friend Sergei's ashes were in their niche, Dictator Stalin mounted Lenin's Tomb beside the Kremlin wall, funeral music changed to the bray of military bands, and crack detachments of the Red Army and Gay-pay-oo troops swung past at the double while 64 airplanes filled the sky, approximately one for every Russian executed...
...canned tomatoes with the seeds in it, changing abruptly to cream-colored forehead. Pale blue clever bulgy eyes, glaring dizzily at something in offing, possibly anthill. Sandy eyelashes, invisible eyebrows, lips gathered on a drawstring with puzzled purse like old lady's reticule. Nose of a grocer adding up slip. Freckled hands with an elegant shape, sensitively caressing cigarette. Face wiggles formlessly into collar, long seamy neck to rear. Gold rimmed spectacles, mal-fitting collar, hunched shoulders. Looks overheated, corrugated, modest and oafish. A country-store type...
Ernest A. Gray '37, sophomore center, was all over the floor again, and in the intervals when he was on his feet managed to slip in five points. On the defense his height and simian arms were potent stumbling-blocks for the Engineers, and his skill under the back-board prevented many enemy tallies...
...private life is the respected wife of Producer Emmett Callahan, in the wings after her act, followed her to her dressing room, watched her put on dark stockings, white net panties, a peach satin garter belt embroidered ANNE, a robin's egg blue chemise, a pink silk slip, a long-sleeved, high-necked black dress, a black hat and long kid gloves. "Thus," wrote Reporter Ager, "does a strip artist in her private life get even...