Word: slap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...giggle. The band was going through all the motions: the swart, longish-haired leader led away; the brasses, the saxophones, the clarinets made a great show of fingering and blowing, but the only sound from the stage was a rhythmic swish-swish from the trap-drummer, a froggy slap-slap from the bull-fiddler, a soft plunk-plunk from the pianist. This, explained Leader Raymond Scott, was silent music...
Probably no other British consul ever became as popular in Philadelphia, San Francisco and Manhattan as did ruddy Sir Gerald Campbell, whose after-dinner stories have made hundreds of prominent U. S. businessmen slap their thighs. Canny Winston Churchill, having already picked Viscount Halifax as Ambassador to the U. S., last week plucked ebullient Sir Gerald from Ottawa, where he has lately been serving as High Commissioner* for the Mother Country, and assigned him to Washington-obviously as the perfect foil to austere, pallid, pious Lord Halifax...
...High and Dizzy," one of Hal Roach's first attempts, stars Harold Lloyd and his spirited slap-stick. The dead-pan humor of Buster Keaton is the main attraction of the evening's newest film, "The Navigator" produced in 1924. Charlie Chaplin's "A Night at the Show" is the climaz of this set of silent pictures...
...year Britain began driving official stakes. Applying the rule-of-thumb used in the Arctic, Britain drew a narrowing wedge to the Pole from the boundaries of its Falkland Islands possessions, declared it under the Union Jack. This gained a semblance of international recognition when Britain was able to slap a tax on all whales tried out in British Antarctic bases, enforce it until floating factories were introduced. Thus encouraged, Britain claimed a similar wedge for New Zealand in the Ross Sea area, to reinforce the hazy, unofficial claims of its hero explorers, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Sir Ernest Henry...
...Willkie, regardless of what you think, is not selling patent medicine; and as a news magazine, your attempts to editorialize your news commentaries come as a hard slap to many who have always regarded you as source No. 1 for accurate information...