Word: slips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poles began a retreat which did not halt until the Russians were at the gates of Warsaw. Day after day for two months the Squadron fought a 400-mi. rear-guard action, covering the evacuation of towns, hindering and harassing Budenny at every turn. Often their base train would slip out of the west of a town as the Cossacks clattered in at the east. Once they were forced to burn planes that failed at the last moment, the pilots escaping on foot. Like other Russian troops, Budenny's men had been promised a four-day loot of Warsaw...
There seems to me to be a rather easy solution of this difficulty. A number of slips from all of the seven House dining halls could be kept at each hall. When some student not a resident of that house went in as a guest of a resident, he might be required to ask for a slip from the house of which he was a resident, and fill it out just as if he were eating at this own hall...
...shop and a Ford service station. He led the University Orchestra. He became president of the Glee Club. He composed for and sang in the Triangle Club's shows, including The Scarlet Coat which he wrote out of his fondness for life in the Northwest. He used to slip into the Congregational Church and play opera on the organ. He also composed there, trying out orchestral effects with the stops and filling the house with his big voice. After graduation he organized the Princeton Conservatory of Music. The Princeton Orchestra still plays as something of a tradition the symphonic...
...back for more. Women run out into the square, sprinkle corn meal on the ground in a circle with radial lines extending in the six directions of Indian astronomy. They shrink back. The carriers fling their snakes into the circle. The snakes writhe one upon another, sometimes try to slip away. Suddenly several Hopi rush into the circle, fill their arms with snakes and run off, out of the village, over the plateau to fling the snakes far from them. Slowly they return to the village, while the snakes go away to bring them rain. White spectators return to their...
...chorus, permits herself to be kept. Miss Davies follows in short order, is set up in style befitting a "regally gilded queen." Montgomery, once provider for Miss Dove, falls in love with Miss Davies. The frequent quarrels of Miles Davies & Dove reach a climax when Miss Dove intentionally lets slip Miss Davies' hand during a revolving ballet number. Miss Davies breaks a leg. After a farewell party at which she gets her mother intoxicated, she returns to the East Side. Montgomery finally appears with 1) four specialists who promise they can mend the broken limb and 2) a proposal...