Word: backslap
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Regarding Mr. Axelrod's suggestion that ex-Presidents serve on a foreign relations committee [TiME, July 24] and Thomas Toberty's nai've backslap [TiME, Aug. 14], I'd like to present the problem in a more factual manner...
...only in the mechanics of banking and investment but also in the delicate matter of contact with customers. He has often so genially laughed off his "inability" to lend money that the would-be borrower has gone off chuckling, convinced. Willing to see anybody, with a laugh and a backslap for almost all, he has never wavered when approached by such stern banking problems as foreclosing on a friend...
General Peter N. Krassnoff, onetime Ataman of the Don Cossacks, now author (Double-Eagle to Red Flag), does not forbear, despite the promise of his publishers, to backslap at Russia's revolutionists...
...Convention Week for the gazette & clarion men. Unlike other convention groups, they did not backslap. That was their distinguishing sign as they swarmed through the lobbies and corridors of the Waldorf-Astoria, Manhattan hotel, during the annual sessions of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association and the Associated Press...
...cases this undergraduate suspicion is well founded. But there is another reason for presidential isolation. Modern four-button, Ide collar undergraduates are more sophisticated than they were in the heyday of the turtlenecked sweater. They are finicky about their friends. They would be standoffish should any president seek to backslap and fraternize. Often they are best left to their self-sufficient devices. "Perhaps," said a jokester, "only fools rush in where Angells fear to tread...