Word: hopalong
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...they telephoned, and Alf noticed that Clara's isolation led her to speak in dated British slang, with such expressions as "ripping" and "top-hole." Alf sent Clara dresses and a fur coat; he sent Nicky, the seven-year-old son he had never seen, a complete Hopalong Cassidy outfit with a "bristling armory of guns...
...only a moderately entertaining movie, but Sir Laurence, as the highwayman, seems to be having great fun holding up stagecoaches, leaping through windows and over walls, outwitting the jailers and, in general, carrying on like a cross between Hamlet and Hopalong Cassidy...
...DeMilles De-Mille; the sailors engaging in a pocket-billiard contest with Nero (Gino Cervi); gladiators waging a savage football game in the Colosseum with a Grecian urn as a pigskin; a Roman orgy with jitterbugging; a frenzied chariot race in which one of the vehicles is driven by Hopalong Cassius...
...though its slum alleys are still noisome and laundry festoons every tenement, no longer seems such a violent affront to its breathtaking setting. To the land of the Fra Angelicos and hand-painted Sicilian donkey carts has come the neon glare of modern living-billboards, Life Savers, Esso stations, Hopalong Cassidy, even a little TV. Venetian canals boast traffic lights, and only a lusty gondolier could raise his tenor above the gaseous snarl of motoscafi...
...outskirts of Boston and every large city a new retailing business is growing. It is still the land of Hopalong Cassidy suits, vacuum cleaners, and nylon stockings. It is also the land of vast parking places, long, low buildings and customer convenience...