Word: slapping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard undergraduates, to the sons of old Nassau Princeton means perhaps more than anything else a jumble of queer and extraneous traditions. Bell clappers, cannon, haircuts, and "dinks" all are words whose significance makes the nostalgic Tiger grad's heart warm, and causes him to chuckle and slap his thigh at the thought of his gay college years...
Meanwhile, across the Common in Fay House, cooler heads realized the growing momentum of a potential fiasco. Should the student council slap a ceiling on campaign expenditure? What about the girl who didn't know you were allowed to campaign? What about the girl who didn't get an idea in time? And what about the girl who didn't get an idea...
After the game, Yankee Manager Casey Stengel gave Joe a heartfelt slap on the back. "Without you," said Casey, "we couldn't have done it." But last week, packing in preparation for a barnstorming trip to Korea, DiMaggio said the words that Stengel and his teammates hated to hear: "I've made up my mind to retire...
...large bouquet to the writer responsible for "Manners & Morals" [TIME, Sept. 24], and a faint slap on the wrist to TIME for lending importance to the matrimonial (there is a better word) tag matches that distinguish a certain layer of Hollywood society. Tone, Payton and Neal, like "That Gardner Girl," might best be left to their petty problems...
...profession of vaudeville acting. At this point the picture takes a turn for the better; she sings "It's a Hot Night in Alaska," a Dixieland piece and the show's best scene. The action between scenes then speeds up with the introduction of "Hemingway," a slap-happy sailor who speaks only in wisecracks of nautical slang. That's about it: the picture ends in a standard ballroom scene where the men wear black masks and clutch flaming candelabras...