Word: slappings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prey and help themselves in a royal way. But as Gondolieri, whose life is "loving and laughing and quipping and quaffing," they miss the right note of delicate gayety. They sing "Buon' giorno, signorine!" like the police in "The Birates" who found the wisest thing, tarantara, tarantara! was to slap their chests and sing, tarantara...
Governor Roosevelt's relations with Tammany were strained almost to the breaking point. Its turndown of Justice Rosenman in Manhattan was a direct slap at him on local patronage. If it succeeded in defeating Mr. Lehman at Albany and then encumbered the party ticket with Walker's renomination in New York City. Governor Roosevelt's chances of carrying New York State would become slim indeed. But the Democratic presidential nominee still had one mighty weapon with which to bludgeon Tammany into line? prospective Federal patronage. Boss Curry knew only too well that as far as Federal jobs were concerned Governor...
...were people of influence and property in their various communities- friends of delegates, of State chairmen and national committee men and women. They knew what was transpiring in the hotel rooms between sessions. In that notorious night session they knew that the grandstand play of McAdoo was an unnecessary slap at Al Smith, as permitted by the Roosevelt managers. During the day Illinois and Indiana had also united in the intention to switch to the governor. So the Mid-West, not Chicago, booed the Californian. The booing was done melodiously, in good taste, with the familiar razzberries of the rabble...
...slap at insurgency brought a murmur of approval. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, who had been sitting in a box with Mrs. Patrick Jay Hurley, stiffened when her father's name was mentioned for the first & only time during the convention. The Utah delegation applauded when a conference on bimetallism was promised. The oil states held a little parade when high oil tariffs were recommended. The house rang righteously with indignation when Chairman Garfield deplored the burgeoning kidnapping racket. Then the words "the 18th Amendment" were pronounced and the atmosphere electrified...
Since Crown Prince Umberto is reputedly antiFascist, this tampering with the oath seemed a direct slap by Benito Mussolini...