Word: slipping
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...drilled rather than dug." Grammatical errors are listed under the head, "English the King wouldn't like" ("He had been ill for several months and had underwent a gall bladder operation six weeks ago," or "Then, after Jim Hearn had left a 2-1 victory in the nightcap slip away . . ."). A lively headline-MOCKTAIL TIXING KILT, COCKTAIL MIXING TILT WON BY-WHO WON 'AT OL' THING ANYWAY? -is listed under "Chuckle heads...
Supergadgets. At the Super Market Institute held in Cleveland last week, the new merchandising devices included: 1) a machine made by the Gurey Manufacturing Co., Brooklyn, which counts returned empty bottles, calculates the amount of the credit and gives the customer a credit slip; 2) a can straightener displayed by Can-Do, Inc., New York City, which removes dents from cans without damaging the label...
...dead-letter tommyrot from the dust and mildew and present it again to the faculties to sign on the dotted line or else. Apparently Mr. Dorgan is not willing to be forgotten. But why the teachers should not, in a body, refuse to sign that absurd slip which makes them eat humble pie that a few politicians prepared for them is very puzzling...
...book-lined chamber gives it a musty, scholarly flavor. There are books for every type of student in the 6,250-book reference collection. Prison ethnologists, for instance, delight in the Dictionary of the Underworld which sets into plain language such technical phrases as slice (knife wound) and to slip on the heat (v., trans; to shool a person, especially to death). Sociologists specializing in higher strata may find more help in the Who's Who of Polish Americans, Librarians, Texans, or even the Argentinian Quien en Quien. Detrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage provides excellent pictures of family...
...because police were ever watchful, even this line usually was delivered as nervously as though the gallant were trying to slip the senorita a love letter in church. At last, it got so that the most inspiring girl could move past a city block of curbside Romeos and hear only frustrated mumbles. Solemnly taking note, the Venezuelan newspaper El National last week reported that the piropo, once the boast of Maracaibo, is dead...