Word: slam-bang
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...Spanish Main (RKO Radio) is the kind of pleasant nonsense that has become practically a lost art: a gaudy, fancy-dress romance with a handsome, Robin-Hooded hero, a lovely, menaced heroine and dark, churlish villains. Director Frank Borzage has appropriately filmed it all in a blaze of riotous, slam-bang Technicolor...
From this point on, it is high-octane cops & robbers, ending with a slam-bang fist fight and a breakneck chase as the Major, Abby and the scientist dash for the water's edge and a waiting British submarine. In a simple-minded way, it is good, fast...
...miles back, the Empire Builder's second section was coming in out of the east. A flagman ran the few hundred yards back to Michigan City to flag it, but he never made it. Section 2 hit the Michigan City curve with its exhaust drumming, plowed slam-bang into Section...
...quick to respond to this maneuver of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Bald Representative Carl Hinshaw, California Republican, promptly introduced a brace of resolutions under which the Senate could consider treaties only after the House had approved their consideration and passed validating legislation. Representatives hoped it might start a slam-bang fight over the Senate's jealously guarded treaty monopoly...
Last week Moderator Vale had not only Presbyterians but many other Protestants goggle-eyed. Turning from lamb into lion, he had begun a slam-bang crusade against the Roman Catholic Church. For ten weeks he will speak two or three times a day in major cities, repeating the ominous words he uttered in Dallas last week...