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Word: slapping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...noisy faculty teaches I Dug a Ditch, assisted by comely Georgia Carroll. Bob Crosby's band backs Baby Basilisk Virginia O'Brien in In a Little Spanish Town. Benny Carter cultivates Honeysuckle Rose for elegant Lena Home. Frank Morgan pretends to be a doctor, gets slap-happy in his examination of Ann Sothern, Lucille Ball and Marsha Hunt, who want to be WAVES. Red Skelton is a soda jerker with an allergy for ice cream. Judy Garland makes scat-singing like "Tchai-tchai-tchaikovsky" bearable in Let There Be Music. Senor Iturbi, forced by the curious exigencies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 11, 1943 | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

Today Harry Ruby, one of Hollywood's busiest men, has shifted most of his attention from songwriting to comedy scripts, has turned out such slap-happy scenarios as the Marx Brothers' Horse Feathers, Duck Soup, A Night at the Opera, Eddie Cantor's The Kid from Spain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Loony Lieder | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

...vote was a resounding slap at Lewis. Emphasizing the meaning of the council action, Green announced that $60,000 in advance dues was being returned to U.M.W., that any further preconvention move must come from Lewis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Lewis Rebuffed | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

...Menjou. Clothed in sumptuous black & white, Pola is as vivacious and comely in comedy as she was as a glamor girl. Slapstick permits her to be as violent as ever. When her accompanist in the picture accuses her of "bellowing like a cow," the temperamental tigress fetches him a slap in the puss. When somebody urges her not to become violent over Cinemactor Menjou's alleged infidelities, she cries: "Violent! I'll show you how to be violent"-and launches into an aria from Tannhäuser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Jul. 26, 1943 | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

Lean, acid, troublemaking Drew Pearson, famed Merry-Go-Round, keyhole columnist, got himself into a little more trouble than usual last week. John R. Monroe, host of the briefly renowned Red House on R Street (TIME, May 17), slapped a $1,000,000 libel suit on him, another for $350,000 on the Washington Post, which published the special Pearson article, for defamation of character. Meanwhile a posse of anti-Fourth Term Senators, mad enough to slap him with something else, contented themselves with giving the lie to another Pearson story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The President & the Press | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

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