Word: slipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were married by a Catholic priest, that the Catholic Church forbids the marriage of an impotent person" (italics mine, J. C.). Amusing is the thought that TIME'S editors, who have done such a creditable job in reporting news of the Catholic Church, allowed this absurd statement to slip by their collective eyes. Evidently the press knew, and TIME did not, that no Catholic is ever questioned before or after marriage as to his potency or impotency. JOHN M. CONROY...
...steal at dusk to vantage points near geisha-houses, machiai (waiting-houses) and licensed prostitute quarters, and there scribble down the automobile license plates of bloods who waste their money during the national emergency. Sometimes, when the young scalawags arrive by taxi, the guardians of national thrift have to slip right inside the house to get a good look at who is misbehaving-and for how much...
...Times's Publisher Sulzberger, TIME'S apologies for a stupid slip: the editorial referred to appeared in the New York...
...Making. When Joe Robinson was Majority Floor Leader of the Senate, no Democrat would have dreamed of trying to slip over an important bill when the Leader was away from his desk or preoccupied. Last week the level to which the supposedly ruling party had fallen was sensationally exposed by Leader Barkley's own colleague, ponderous Logan of Kentucky, who slipped over an act basically altering the authority of the New Deal's entire administrative structure while Leader Barkley and his whip, "Shay" Minton, were engrossed in conversation right on the floor. Not only that, but Senator Logan...
Biggest fish to slip through the Nazi frontier net (in a sealed freight car) was Vojta Benes, brother of ex-President Eduard Benes. Brother Vojta brought some blood-curdling tales from home, where he has been in hiding since Nazis took over...