Word: slappings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which they have their main following, from the sacrifices other French classes are being asked to bear, brought down on Premier Blum the greatest outburst of Parliamentary wrath in months. Representatives of other classes showed not the least embarrassment in rebuking the presumptuous proletariat, and cheers greeted a resounding slap at Premier Blum by famed old Senator Joseph Caillaux, many times Finance Minister. "It is, as you say, the duty of every Government to hear both the employers' and the workers' sides," roared M. Caillaux at M. Blum, "but you Monsieur le Président du Conseil, have...
...declared, 'even if you sail her into hell!' . . . If I live to be 100 I'll never hear sweeter music than the chuckle of the sea past the Girl Pat's bows, the soft whistle of the wind in her rigging, and the slap-slap of the waves against her creaking timbers as she dug her blunt nose into deep water. ... At Tenerite ... an elderly native came sidling up to me. ... He started to praise his daughter and-well, although to me she was only some sort of a dark-skinned female out of Africa...
...Deal platform was 38-year-old Senator Richard Brevard Russell Jr. Seeking the Russell seat in the Senate on a platform of New Deal abuse was Governor Eugene Talmadge (TIME, Sept 7). Bawled Senator Russell night before the primary: "Election of Talmadge would be a slap in the face of the President...
...thronged around him with cheers, Orator Mussolini cried: "Those who have a right to Empire are the fecund peoples-those people who have the pride and the will to propagate their race on earth-VIRILE PEOPLES in the strictest meaning of those words!" In what appeared to be a slap at France, the Dictator contemptuously declared: "Peoples with empty cribs cannot create an Empire-and if they have an Empire the time will come when it will be extremely difficult for them to keep or defend...
...lace industry. The women of Laura's family uniformly felt profound contempt for their husbands, and she grew up in a household of six women and an uncle. Her bitter great-grandmother, hearing of her husband's death, tried to cross England in time to slap his dead face before he was buried. Her mother's marriage, writes the daughter, was "an unhappy one," and when her father died soon after Laura's birth, everybody said, "It is for the best." A mustachioed aunt ran a lace factory at St. Quentin, France, while her pusillanimous husband...