Word: rapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jesus on his bass notes. He used to circulate queasy looking gents through the oddie who'd tap you when you were just going good, say, on "Blood of the Lamb," and ask you to put in with The Faith. One of those guys gave me the rap once and I was about to hop over when my brother hissed a "Beat it," out of the side of his mouth without missing a bar of the hymn. The guy beat it, too. So I never was saved. But if it ever happened I'd like Ironside...
...dialog as amiably frivolous as artificial snow and lighted up with rows of handsome specialties, three of which stand out: Reginald Gardiner as a park policeman leading an invisible orchestra; Barnett Parker as a sissy floorwalker demonstrating a model home; a ballroom dance number by Georges & Jama. Best songs: Rap, Tap On Wood by Powell, Easy to Love by Powell & Stewart, I've Got You Under My Skin by Virginia Bruce...
...Landon, no woman has any more right to be called "Theo" than she has to play the harp. The wife of the Kansas governor must take the rap on both points. But that isn't all. She also goes around one week before the election, one week during which she could be saving the American way of life, saying, "Oh, no, I'm not worried about the election. My children keep me too busy for that." It's remarks like that that undermine American democracy. Harpo Marx also plays the harp, but you won't catch him not worrying about...
Governor Curley again made political capital out of the name "Harvard" when he issued a "severe rap" at the Lampoon and the Crimson in rallies last night. Citing a Lampoon cartoon entitled "Curley Addresses His Puritan Ancestors" as illustrative of how Harvard felt toward the "ordinary man" (His Excellency acting in the capacity of "ordinary man") he went on to quote the remarks of a Square merchant in Friday's Crimson on President Roosevelt's ride down Mass Avenue...
Neither was the WPA concert a disappointment to the man who did much of the six weeks' work of organizing it, who whipped the 285 players together after they had been rehearsed in sections. Conductor Erno ("Ernie") Rapée not only led the biggest symphonic orchestra ever assembled in Madison Square Garden through the 1812 and a Strauss waltz, but also performed the feat of arranging for it a trio Tchaikovsky originally wrote for piano, violin and cello...