Word: slipped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...traditional Christmas switch is on again, as University students slip furtively in and out of women's shops and 'Cliffedwellers roam the haberdasheries. But no matter from what angle one looks at the situation, crowds are swarming the stores, gobbling up anything and everything that will fit into Yule wrappings...
...stayed put. Sample: Mrs. Maud K. Stevenson Henjes. Last March, when she was still Maud Stevenson and yachtsman Robert H. Henjes was only her "boyfriend" (her own term), she & he tiffed. The tiff wound up in a Long Island police station where Maud, stripped down to brassiere and half slip, bit and kicked a cop like nobody's business...
...arranger, Carroll Lucas. No one paid any attention to it, even when Owens was plugging it on ladies' laps. Then, a year ago, the Reynolds Pen Co. hired Owens to record the Rocket Song, hoping that listeners would be reminded of Rocket Pens. Owens got a chance to slip How Soon? on the other side of the record. Disc jockeys started playing it, and requests poured in. He expects to earn $100,000 from the song...
...have attempted to give some documentation for my feeling that the dining halls, sure of themselves in that their market cannot slip from their grasp, are not doing the best job they can. These are a few of the things that cause the undergraduate to be dissatisfied. There are many more. If the heads of the department sit down together with a will to improve their service rather than to justify it, they will be going far towards the solution of a problem undergraduates feel keenly about three times...
...According to the screenplay, Groucho is a producer who has no backers, Chico an unidentified character who lives with Groucho and owns a large stuffed moose head, and Harpo an actor who plays a dead body in Groucho's epic. But as in all their films, the zany trio slip in and out of their plot roles as the occasion demands; so Groucho leers, Chico mugs, and Harpo ogles with accustomed vigor. After two reels, even the most astute give up trying to follow the incredibly involved machinations of the brothers Marx; in favor of just sitting back and howling...