Word: slips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miriam Hopkins came from Savannah, Ga. but only rarely does her cracker accent slip out onstage. Her original intention was to become a dancer, but she broke her ankle after appearing in the first Music Box Revue. His Majesty's Car is her twelfth theatrical engagement, including one year with the Theatre Guild. She has no hobbies, one wirehaired fox terrier, one husband-Playwright Austin Parker (Week End), Cornellian, Wartime ambulance driver, flyer in the Lafayette Escadrille. She looks girlish onstage, thirtyish off (exact age secret...
...kills jaguars with a bayonet, has devised a new method for capturing the giant anaconda boa constrictor. These monsters live in swamp pools which the natives skim and will not talk about except to mutter, "sucuri," their name for the anaconda. In the cold, dry season, anacondas sometimes slip out of pools to bask in the sun. Hunter Siemel's plan is to get between his snake and the water, put it on the defensive. Other men will surround it on the land side. Each man will be equipped with a long pole with a rawhide loop...
...office issued an inevitable denial. But no steps were taken against Correspondent Knickerbocker. Organs friendly to the German government did not flay him. One bitter government critic, Nationalist Deputy Axel Freytagh-Loringhoven, dashed into print with a polemic against German Foreign Minister Julius Curtius, accused him of clumsily letting slip the first opportunity beaten Germany has had to play off two of her former enemies against each other. He declared that Dr. Curtius could have wangled concessions for the Reich from both France and Italy had he been smarter...
...outbreak of the War, the narrator-hero of Wooden Swords was just finishing his military service, comfortably suffering from an imaginary ailment in the comparatively restful infirmary. Mobilization cured him. Sent to Rheims as part of a convoy to a supply train, he and a comrade managed to slip by the sentries into the Cathedral. Soon German shells began to burst in the ruined nave. Said his comrade: "It's not that I'm afraid, you understand, but I hate loud noises." On his return to Paris, Hero 'T' became successively clerk, bicyclist, male nurse; was often in trouble, sometimes...
Third Race. Again five big sets of sails grouped; spread along the course, now off Oyster Bay. Weetamoe, handled by Skipper Nichols, again first crossed the finish line. Whirlwind, running close behind, split her mainsail, forced Skipper Langdon Thorne to allow the Enterprise to slip past into second place at the very end of the race. Third: Whirlwind. Fourth: Resolute. Fifth: Vanitie...