Word: slips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beginning to ebb and help them along. The race was between them, but Vanitie decided it. Gerard Lambert, at Vanitie's wheel, is a member of the Weetamoe syndicate. Vanitie is Weetamoe's trial horse. So whenever he could in the long thrash on the wind, Lambert slipped up and took Enterprise's wind, letting Weetamoe slip ahead...
...suspicion that he was giving golf lessons to his Washington, D. C. employer. Jones missed a five-foot putt on the 8th, another at the 10th and cut his drive into a whin at the 12th. Voigt was two up. Here Voigt began to slip. He drove out of bounds and lost the 15th. At the Railway Hole he played into Principal's Nose, famed bunker. Suddenly Jones found his putting touch. Needing a long putt for a half at the 17th to avoid going home one down, he sank it. It was his most important shot...
...thus kept clean a record which they have held since their season opened adding the Harvard scalp to their belt on which already hang six. In the opening minutes of play the Eli players sent a fire of shots against Gulick, the Harvard goalie, who let five of them slip by. Salmon was substituted in his place, and in the remainder of the game he stopped 13 out of 15 shots...
...secondary position to political unity. The replies from the Powers which have been asked for July will largely determine its career. Germany holds the deciding cards, Should Germany effectively cooperate with France, Europe would come under Franco-German control, London would see its century-old balance of power slip through its fingers, and Mussolini could cry vainly for fanfares and sword-play. If Germany refuses to see this organization within the League, the main object of the Union would be lost...
...varied cinematic formulas enough to make The Devil's Holiday artistically effective, but not enough to impair its popular appeal. It remains a program picture, but a far better one than the average. Best shot: Nancy Carroll's thoughts about her husband revealed to the audience by a slip of the tongue when she is back in a Chicago hotel room trying to get drunk on champagne...