Word: raps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reporter asked about antirecession spending. "Let's try to use some common sense and not just get a Sputnik attitude about everything." All last week the President kept a tight grip on the rule of reasonableness, surprised staff and Congress alike by using it to administer a sharp rap across the knuckles here, a threat there, to keep politically fired recession fears from getting out of bounds...
While most critics become crabbier with age, Veteran Atkinson seems to some theatergoers to have mellowed. After the Times covered the Sardi's party in its theater-review format under the headline FOR (NOT BY) BROOKS ATKINSON, some readers wondered how he could bring himself to rap another play. Their fears proved groundless. That night Critic Atkinson left the opening performance of Norman Krasna's Who Was That Lady I Saw You With? (see THEATER), strode two blocks to the Times and neatly scribbled a panning review...
...Trick. In Richmond, Joseph Linisus Hall, 35, settled for 20 years on an armed-robbery rap, complained bitterly that someone had stolen his $35 Homburg and tie, argued: "I might not get to use them for a while, but it's the principle of the thing...
...sooner was his father settled on the farm than Willie got another big break. One of the horses trained by Junie Corbin was found to be doped, and according to racing law, the trainer took the rap. Junie needed money badly, and the most valuable property he owned was Hartack's contract. Willie's services were sold to Mrs. Ada L. Rice...
...corn field was illegally baited. Among the gunners in the wardens' bag: Lieut. General Edward T. Williams, deputy chief of the Continental Army Command at Fort Monroe. Va., and Major General Rinaldo Van Brunt, Second Army chief of staff at Fort Meade. Md. Maximum penalty (if the baiting rap can be hung on the generals): a $500 fine, six months in jail...