Word: slips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the raucous early days of the organization, the only reminder of which is the club's emblem: a naked girl slapping a tambourine. Back in 1893, the Vaudeville Club, as it was then known, leased a room in the old Met. It was common for members to slip out of a performance of Faust, dash across the corridor to the clubroom and watch acts like "Papinta and Her Novel Chromatic and Serpentine Dances." The nightly vaudeville show became increasingly risque until a police raid obliged the members reluctantly to forgo Papinta for Pagliacci...
...passage describing how Jackie used petroleum jelly in order to slip her wedding ring on Jack's finger after he had been pronounced dead at Dallas' Parkland Hospital...
...that, Warren approved the use of informers in two related cases. Hoffa Lawyer Z. T. Osborn Jr. was appealing his own conviction (3½ years) for trying to slip $10,000 to one of Hoffa's Chattanooga jurors. In Osborn's case, the informer was Policeman Robert Vick, who had originally been hired by Osborn to investigate Hoffa's Nashville jurors, and who was later asked by Osborn to help bribe a prospective juror. By then, Vick had switched sides, and with approval of two judges, the feds had armed him with a tape recorder into which...
...giving between husband and wife, that is virtually an index of the success of a marriage. Only in the closest of unions would a husband succeed in buying the right kind of antique Wedgwood vase; and if he knows the correct size for a half-slip, he almost knows too much. On the other hand, it takes more than love-profound intuition and knowledge of character-for a wife to choose the right necktie for her husband. In marital giving, moveover, there is a subtle language: the pingpong table as a gentle hint to the husband who does not spend...
...troops at Hussein's disposal. The United Nations last week got around to censuring Israel for the original attack, but that was small consolation for Hussein. Jordan's 350-mile border with Israel is just too long to screen, and more Arab terrorists are bound to slip across and further provoke Israel. When they do, almost anything may happen...