Word: slips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newsreel photographer, made a complete record of the assassination while bullets whistled round his ears. Four days later he dropped dead from a cerebral hemorrhage. Petrus Kalemen was not alone in his plot. Acting on secret tips, police on the French border arrested two men attempting to slip over the line into Switzerland: Ivan Raitch and Zvonemer Posposil. According to the French police, Raitch, Posposil and Kalemen were members of a Croatian terrorist organization known as Ustashi, sworn to the assassination of King Alexander in revenge for the murder of the great Croat Leader Stephan Raditch in Belgrade...
...inexcusable slip, TIME accepts rebuke...
...Glen Cove, L. I. in something called Episode Limited. Last year she played summer stock at Woodstock. This year she tried to get a job in Merrily We Roll Along by daily visit to the office of Sam Harris' general manager, leaving each day a slip of blue paper bearing information about Jean Bellows. Not until the tenth slip did she mention that she was George Bellows' daughter. Of her father she once said: "I'm his best work of art." Her inconspicuous appearance in Small Miracle is her first in Manhattan...
...late. Tony wants two things: to see the little man who betrayed him dying at his feet; then to drop dead himself. He gets both wishes. One or two of Small Miracle's side excursions are gratuitous and one or two are trite, but the tangled threads never slip out of the capable hands of Director George Abbott. The net effect is as pungent and authentic as the gunpowder smoke that clouds the stage...
What keeps The Distaff Side from slip ping into mawkishness is Sybil Thorndyke who seems to imbue her acting with a extraordinary personal warmth and to make the play a cameo-clear portrait of a fine and gracious woman...