Word: slapped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good friend, Senator William M. Butler, was smitten down by David Ignatius Walsh, Democratic Wet, Irish-Catholic. Even in Northampton with the added stimulus of the President and Mrs. Coolidge's personal votes, Senator Butler barely nosed out Senator-elect Walsh by 53 votes. However, the slap at the Administration is somewhat lessened by the well-known, potent vote-getting powers of Mr. Walsh and the colorless conservatism of business-like Senator Butler...
...early eighteenth century Italian comedy was flourishing, but was written and produced in slap-stick style, with stock characters and stereo typed jokes. Gozzi broke from this familiar fashion, and while he kept most of the stock characters, like Harlequin and Pantaloon, he wove around them a romantic story, taken from the Arabian Nights and embellished with a good deal of humor not entirely of the slapstick variety. His work is in some sense the flower of the Comedie del Arte of early Italian drama, and it-will be interesting to see on the modern stage his combination...
...necessary adjunct, a tawny, nondescript dog. The John Greenleaf Whittier poem was complete; bare feet, red hair, freckles; attired in a cotton shirt and overalls. Occasionally a promising dip of his long fishpole caused his eyes to sparkle momentarily; occasionally an intrepid fly was rewarded with an energetic slap. . . . Occasionallv, too, he shot a glance of stern disapproval across the wharf, where the Courtney children-Martha, four, and Jane, six-romped carelessly. Suddenly, simultaneous shrieks rent the air, mingling with the splash of water. Two struggling figures swept beneath the projecting fishpole. The boy jumped. Seizing one girl...
More robust was the Chicago Tribune's response to this later day touting of the name of Kipling. The Tribune's editor frankly admitted that he had written Mr. Kipling's obituary long ago, had grown tired of seeing it around the shop. Why not slap it in now? Done...
...Aint it the truth, Mr. Finkleburg? Yes. And so why not the ankles in a feature play (for public consumption with beauty comic, huh? So a scenario with ankles for the public, Miss Apfel, you will get and perhaps maybe some slap stick to assist the ankles with a hotel for impression, what? No! Don't esk? If gentlemen patrons won't look at faces on Broadway or perhaps cross town why should they in moving picture art, so ankles it is with high skirts of Paris, Miss Apfel. Dictation...