Word: slips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...status of newshawks, rewritemen, photographers et al. in relation to the 40-hr, maximum work week remained obscure last week. An assistant in NRA opined they were "professional" men, therefore exempt. Next day General Johnson called that a "slip...
Twenty years ago when the Metropolitan Opera's orchestra was in its golden age under Arturo Toscanini, a dark slip of a boy with intense brown eyes and a rapt expression was usually concealed where he could watch and hear all that transpired, not on the stage, but in the orchestra pit, where his father played a viola. The father was a Belgian. The son, Leon Barzin, had been brought up in New Orleans but the rest of his youth was to be spent in Manhattan where, by the age of 20, he had achieved a second violinist...
...deputy marshal, tried to smash Photographer Wil-liams's camera with his manacled hands. The alert cameraman sidestepped, snapped. In the evening Williams showed up at the Louisville & Nashville Railway Station with a flock of newshawks who had detected Huey Long in the act of trying to slip quietly off to Washington. (Supposed reason: to try to get revoked the appointment of Lawyer Paul B. Habans, whom he dislikes, as Louisiana manager of Federal Home Owners Loan Corp.) With the Senator was his personal bodyguard, swart Joe Messina...
...deputy marshal, tried to smash Photographer Wil-liams's camera with his manacled hands. The alert cameraman sidestepped, snapped. In the evening Williams showed up at the Louisville & Nashville Railway Station with a flock of newshawks who had detected Huey Long in the act of trying to slip quietly off to Washington. (Supposed reason: to try to get revoked the appointment of Lawyer Paul B. Habans, whom he dislikes, as Louisiana manager of Federal Home Owners Loan Corp.) With the Senator was his personal bodyguard, swart Joe Messina...
...days before another Luckenbach boat had sidled into its slip in Manhattan with a first consignment of paraffined oranges. Luckenbach men and officials of the processing company which had devised a cheap way of dipping the fruit in paraffin, waited anxiously on the pier. They peeled off a few paraffin skins, found the fruit beneath succulent, glowing with health. Great was their rejoicing at the success of the new process...