Word: slips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...emerged from the wire room of the New York Evening World, dawdled across the floor and laconically laid on the city desk a bulletin from the City News Association ticker. City Editor Jack Rainey, who was sending away the last of his Wall Street Closing edition, hastily scanned the slip of paper, stopped stock still, read again. An assistant looked over his shoulder, then a rewrite man, then others...
...course Baron Shidehara instantly corrected himself. He is no more supposed to drag the Emperor's name into debate than is Mr. Hoover to call on Jehovah in his political battles. "I made a slip of the tongue," apologized Baron Shidehara. "I withdraw...
...Richmond, Va., Cecil Cline, 16, swore to a marriage license clerk she was "between 21 and 22," procured a license, married Hollie Jones. Her father swore out perjury warrants for her, her husband, two friends. But Mrs. Hollie Jones explained she had put a slip of paper marked "21" in her shoe, another marked "22" in her hat, so had not lied...
...once, Why don't they say it now? And when attempts were made to raise him up, he persisted in crying out, 'Father, the Sepoys are coming! Let us repel them!"3 In the recipes for drinks Editors Hunt & Chappell stick strictly to business, except for one slip: Kummel Ye Faithful. Only venture into antiquity: the "authentic and secret recipe" for the Ramos Fizz...
This article or memorandum which, by some ghastly slip, received publicity, revealed the German Finance Minister's personal conviction that Germany can pay what she owes under the Young Plan, whereas for press purposes the official attitude of the Briining cabinet is that Germany cannot pay, must eventually ask a moratorium...