Word: slips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jews believe that Catholic Alcala Zamora, Spain's new Provisional President, has in his veins a trace of Jewish blood. Last week when Pedro Cardinal Segura y Saenz, Archbishop of Toledo, returned from a visit to Pope Pius XI and attempted to slip into Spain, he was caught by police of the Zamora Government, detained under virtual arrest at Guadalajara, "asked to leave Spain...
...president.* Since last autumn the Department of Justice has been investigating American Bond & Mortgage. Thousands of investors have complained that this company gobbled up their money, returned them nothing. Charges have been made in court that Mr. Moore had a technique of financing a new construction, letting it slip close to bankruptcy and then somehow emerging as its sole owner...
...Between Liberal La Follette and Liberal Frank friction has been increasingly felt in Madison. The Governor's close friend and unofficial spokesman, Editor William Theodore Evjue of the Capital Times, has been openly flaying Dr. Frank. "The man who is afraid of his shadow," was one Evjue epithet. "Slip- pery and agile" were two Evjue adjectives...
...Herald Tribune was quoted by the Courier's Floyd J. Calvin: "We did not mean to use the word and of course apologize for it. There is a positive 'don't' against the use of the word here in the office. I don't know how it happened to slip...
...Harvard freshman had enough engine left to pull him out, so he tried again. Even with the half hour left in his engine he did the proper thing to seek a landing place; but he went at it wrong. More or less like driving your car off the ferry slip after the boat has left for New Jersey...