Word: slap
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...braids have been loudly proclaiming that the Minseito and Seiyukai would get a proper trimming in these elections from the militant little Showakai, Kokumin-domei. and Tohokai parties. Hence it was a considerable surprise last week when Japan went to the polls, gave Premier Hayashi a most resounding electoral slap. Of the 466 Diet seats, more than 400 went to avowed opposition parties, with the moderate Minseito actually losing ground to the rabidly anti-Hayashi Social Mass Party. So bucked up were civilian politicians that they demanded that the Cabinet resign at once, even the Tohokai chiming...
...skating act. The story, of course, is unimportant, and this time concerns the rumored marriage of a psuedo-Russian ballet dancer (Astaire) and an American jazz singer (Rogers). An ocean crossing provides the setting for an original act in the engine room, where a colored swing band assembles to "slap the bass" in time with the engines and Astaire's feet...
...expects him to play the part of an elder statesman! He has always advocated bold measures. He thinks I am a hard case, but he has not yet convinced me that the remedy he brings forward is the correct one." In suave English political life such words are a slap in the face, and friends of Mr. Chamberlain were in mounting fear last week lest he take the same hobnailed line as Prime Minister, an English job in which suavity is requisite...
Three irate, dusky, and somewhat incoherent Hawaiians were the first visitors. They brought a slap base, a big drum, and a sweet guitar but all in vain. The funnymen just wouldn't let them stay and at last report the unhappy musicians were walking toward Boston...
...Terry and her husband entered the station restaurant, spied Justice Field at a table. Mrs. Terry turned on her heel, left the room. The 66-year-old onetime Chief Justice of California's Supreme Court walked quietly up behind the 72-year-old U. S. Supreme Court Justice, slapped him twice. Before he could slap again, quick David Neagle shot him dead...