Word: slap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lepers with purplish, corrugated, lion-like faces stroll in the sunshine or pick fruit from the heavy fig trees; others with faces eaten away into white, featureless masks slap through the corridors in their bedroom slippers. Men with ulcerated feet pedal bicycles up & down the platforms, sometimes waving a bandaged, fingerless hand at their friends, or stopping at the recreation hall to play poker. On fair days some of the patients play golf, tennis or baseball.The half-dozen children go to a one-room school, and the women-who are far outnumbered by the men-spend most of their time...
...days a week, from 9 in the morning till 6 at night. Pity was the one thing she shied from. In defiance of it, she played golf, rode horseback. She even devised little tricks to make her disability less grim. One was to bend over, slap her ankle as though she had a mosquito bite. Her friends forgot to pity her, laughed with...
...Columbia's imitation of the "Thin Man" series. Super-sleuth Douglas in the course of the picture apprehends a bank robber, decoys a skull-crusher, and takes a "desperate criminal,"--middle-aged and bald--on a double date to the beach with Miss Blondell. One of the more slap-stick incidents occurs when the amazing Mr. Williams attempts to disguise himself by donning women's clothes; it is a backneyed device, but good for several belly-laugbs...