Word: slapping
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Cried Labor M.P. George Downie Blyth Crookston Hardie, ludicrously enough: "We all know that the Morgan's business seems to be chiefly to finance General Motors." Queried he shrewdly, "Was Grenfell's speech really made in order that General Motors might take a slap at Ford...
Long before the noon hour of meeting, members congregated on the House floor to talk, to listen, to laugh, to mill around, to exude cordiality, to slap backs, to wring friendly hands, to encircle familiar shoulders. Two prime conversational topics predominated...
...Haines. This cinemactor invariably plays the obnoxious, precocious whiffet who upsets plans, causes heartaches by his wilfulness. In this piece he is the smartaleck vaudevillager whose wife becomes a famed cinemactress while he is left in comparative obscurity. He wins her back from a sleek cinemactor (Ricardo Cortez) after slap-stickery and problem-solving...
...possible explanation, aside from professional jealousy and personal politics, was that the man who, as owner of the Yankees, contracts for Fielder Ruth's services, is Col. Jacob Ruppert, onetime beer-brewer. "If Babe Ruth ever posed with any Dry," said a fan, "Jake Ruppert'd slap a fine on him quicker'n you can say 'three strikes...
...slap in the face or other physical insult will occasionally stop a hysteric fit. But such are dangerous to many victims. Their hysteria is too deeply ground in character, in brain, in nerves. The deep hysteric may pretend practically every disease, every deformity known to medicine. Some women want children so badly that they actually become bloated. The stigmata frequently reported seen on religious exaltes are hysteric in origin. If the hysteric's malingering continues long the simulated infirmity may cause actual disease. Only the wiliest of doctors can discern the hysteric's true state. And only...