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Word: slapping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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...wanted to take a shower. I came back to the room and I was talking to her when somebody knocked on the door and there was Stiglin. Stiglin says, 'What are you doing here?' I said, 'This lady is my wife.' "They make believe they slap me and finally Stiglin took me out in the hall. He said, 'You fool, why didn't you admit it right away?' I said, 'Well, I don't want to get in bad.' He said, 'Well, never mind. We have got a clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Scandals of New York (Cont.) | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

...perpetual crouch, with his elbows swinging, resembled some kind of beetle that Camera, punching almost vertically, was trying to crush. He sidestepped many of Camera's left leads but could not get out of the way of the ponderous rights aimed at his body. Camera could slap down his guard and plank a punch over. He did not seem at first to be trying very hard. In the eighth round the referee warned him for hitting low, but by that time Paulino was bleeding from the mouth and right eye. When the decision was properly given to Camera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Battle of Barcelona | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

...Windsor, N. C., Percy Hevander, reputed never to have taken a dare, was slapping a young girl. McWebb Williams, reputed always to have kept his word, said: "If you slap that girl again, I will shoot you." Both preserved their integrity. Percy Hevander took no dare, slapped her again. McWebb Williams kept his word, shot him dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Bell-Ringers | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

...eleven candidates for eight vacant vice presidencies-general of D. A. R. was Mrs. Theodore Jesse Hoover, the President's sister-in-law. She was defeated by 37 votes. The idea spread that her rejection was intended as a slap at President Hoover. The Daughters explained that it was nothing of the kind, that her defeat was primarily due to a factional fight in the California delegation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Daughters in Arms | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

...waves. Wilhelm II, when Kaiser and All Highest War Lord, used to ask visiting royal males below the rank of Emperor to lean out a certain window, the better to watch troops parading below. When they did so the All Highest would give their posteriors a resounding, open-palm slap, would laugh and laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Royal Joke | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

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