Word: slap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thomason, hopping mad, construed this as a direct slap at him. Waving aside his editorial writer, Warren H. Pearce, he took a day off to write a return blast, titled "The Integrity of Words." Excerpts: ". . . We proved that Hitler who stands for everything Americans don't stand for, likes the things the Tribune said it stood for. ... The ownership of rich properties does things to some people-to some newspapers. . . . Sometimes such owners mistake wealth and its power for greatness...
...were fighting for single billing. Last year, he teamed with Come dian Bob Hope in Road to Singapore, although Hope's ad-libbing prowess was supposed to be worse than death for any other comedian within range. Bing held his ground, and the result was one of the slap-happiest comedies of the season...
William Powell's squeezable little wife Diana Lewis is currently the interest at the U.T., where the Marx Brothers are appearing in a movie. "Go West," a slap-sticky effort designed to make Horace Greeley regret his advice, succeeds in amusing more often than it bores. Worth-while if only for Harpo's solo on a blanket-loom...
...boss is the guy. Played by newcomer Edmond O'Brien, the boss looks very depressed as he sprawls behind his big desk, but when he joins the capers of Coffee Cup and Dot, he perks up like a puppy. All in all, it adds up to old-fashioned slap-happy...
...which is universally despised as a characteristic of Adolf Hitler: the failure to keep one's promises. If the campaign promise was sincere, there is no reason why it should be excluded from the Bill now. Its rejection would be a sinister tendency toward Hitlerism in America and a slap in the face to democracy...