Word: slap
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Since Crown Prince Umberto is reputedly antiFascist, this tampering with the oath seemed a direct slap by Benito Mussolini...
...Peach O' Reno," the accompaning comedy, is both weak and fatuous. A supposed satire on the mecca of American married life, it combines some good humor with as bad slap-stick comedy as Hollywood is capable of producing. The stupidity of most of the jokes is inexcusable, but nevertheless the audience laughs...
...oblique slap at Reparations was taken in the agreement by the statement: "Strengthening of the German situation makes it necessary that German resources should not be dissipated to meet other claims outside this Stillstand Agreement...
...three-phase 60-cycle hum of the heaters in the furnace was to his ear "an exact representation of the noise one hears as a female mosquito visits one in the night, and one endeavors to crush the annoying creature by a slap of the hand on the side of the face where the pest appears to be ready to draw blood from the victim of its attention...
Surrealists do not believe in thought. They paint subjectively, they insist. They slap paint on canvas to express not what they see but what they feel. Paris has about 20 or 30 recognized surrealists, all anxious to claim Pablo Picasso as one of them for his abstractions. Painter Picasso has persistently declined the honor, insists that there is nothing extemporaneous about his work, that it is all elaborately thought out in advance...