Word: slapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cold fact is that a great many Argentines applauded General Perlinger. His slap at the Yankee Ambassador was good politics. It may even have helped General Perlinger in his rivalry with the Argentine Government's jingo boss, Colonel Juan Domingo Peron, who has recently shown some small signs of willingness to come to terms with...
...Follow the Girls," Dave Wolper's new musical comedy at the Shubert Theatre, has all the trimmings of a good show; yet viewed a an entity it hardly approaches the rare standard of entertainment perfection. A slap-happy public will probably clasp "Follow the Girls" to its collective breast and acclaim it as "grand entertainment...
...Meanest slap of all was a neat turn of phrase of the kind in which Franklin Roosevelt delights: "It is not a tax bill, but a tax relief bill providing relief not for the needy but for the greedy...
Ninety Colorado legislators proudly traveled back to the four corners of the Centennial State last week. They were solemnly proud of not having done something-they had stubbornly refused to vote what they had been called into special session to pass. Their do-nothing was the loudest kind of slap in the face of Colorado's Governor John Charles Vivian...
...Christian Beacon found the matter indicative of "a most deplorable and desperate condition" in the Navy. The Beacon's editor, the Rev. Carl Mc-Intire, took the occasion to wind up with a slap at Chief of Naval Chaplains Robert D. Workman, "who is a minister of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. and who . . . has set out to produce a chaplaincy corps in the Navy which is streamlined according to his own ideas. . . . This information is brought with the one desire of helping to correct the condition, and that we shall have a man at the head...