Word: slips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years and The Orient is now a poolroom for town loafers. Michiganders will have to walk three blocks west to drink their beer: an Ann Arbor ordinance forbids liquor-selling on the campus side of Division Street. Law enforcement is strict in Washtenaw County; students are accustomed to slip over to farmhouse speakeasies in Wayne County. The Mill, Dad's and Red and Bill's now fear a loss of trade...
Publishers, like other advertisers, cry "Wolf! Wolf!" to a semi-attentive public. Their combined clamor is so deafening that it is hard to tell when one of them is really in earnest. Consequently, in those blue moons when they have something to shout about, a sharp-toothed masterpiece may slip undetected into the gentle reader's fold, cause much silent havoc before the alarm is given. Though Publisher Dutton has sounded no extra-special warning, Solal is such a masterpiece-in-sheep's-clothing. Wolf would be a misnomer: nothing so leonine has come down the pike...
Students taking advantage of the plan, will be able to obtain slips, signed by Dean Hanford, this week from his secretary in 4 University Hall. Any doubt as to whether the intended destination is included in the reduction can be settled by consulting the official railroad tariff which will be on file at the Coop Monday. The identification slip will assure a man of the reduction...
...Night after night he worked until 2 o'clock at the White House whence he would go directly home to the Carlton Hotel for a few hours sleep. Not once during the seven-day ordeal did he drop his good-natured smile. Not once did his grey toupee slip askew in the excitement. Not once did he lose control over the deep-hidden temper which once sent him raging into the sanctum of the late Elbert Gary to pound indignant defiance upon the great steelmaster's desk...
...remarked that "these damn advertisements shouldn't be allowed in the mail-boxes. I get all excited, when I see a white slip in the box, but when I open it it's only some tutoring bureau again. I don't get very many letters anyway." One Eliot man said: "Reavens, I'm just swamped with invitations, I can't meet a girl at a dance but I get all sorts of proposals. I'm really embarrassed sometimes...