Word: slap
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...distant likeness of a pugilist: in spite of his efforts to make prominent the muscles of his slender body, greased to show high relief under the lights, one never loses the suspicion that his manager, Robert Arm- strong, an athletic young man who looks something like Jack Sharkey, could slap him over anytime for no purse. Absurdities include a gymnasium shot in which a training fighter swings wildly at his spar- ring partner's chin for several minutes in an effort to knock him out; Armstrong playing solitaire on a table set up on the floor of the gymnasium; fighters...
...Reducing," the current feature at the University, were not funny it would take its place along with the Seven Wonders of the world. There is scarcely an ingredient necessary for "slap-stick" that has not been included in its bundle of tricks. To begin with there is the incomparable Marie Dressler in Perfect form, and here less gifted foil, Polly Moran. Add to these a husband mild to the point of meekness, a brace of typical screen brats, all the esoteric paraphernalia of a beauty shop, a sub-plot that furnishes the inevitable love interest and it may be seen...
...slap at the general public: "The outlay for cosmetics, cigarets, chewing gum, are expenditures that are in no sense necessities and are distinctly in the luxury class. These luxury expenditures total over five and a half times the total cost of all non-government health services. The amount spent for tobacco alone is three times as much as that spent for physicians and the American people spend more for candy than they do for doctors...
...wanted to take a shower. I came back to the room and I was talking to her when somebody knocked on the door and there was Stiglin. Stiglin says, 'What are you doing here?' I said, 'This lady is my wife.' "They make believe they slap me and finally Stiglin took me out in the hall. He said, 'You fool, why didn't you admit it right away?' I said, 'Well, I don't want to get in bad.' He said, 'Well, never mind. We have got a clear...
...Windsor, N. C., Percy Hevander, reputed never to have taken a dare, was slapping a young girl. McWebb Williams, reputed always to have kept his word, said: "If you slap that girl again, I will shoot you." Both preserved their integrity. Percy Hevander took no dare, slapped her again. McWebb Williams kept his word, shot him dead...