Word: slappings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reducing," the current feature at the University, were not funny it would take its place along with the Seven Wonders of the world. There is scarcely an ingredient necessary for "slap-stick" that has not been included in its bundle of tricks. To begin with there is the incomparable Marie Dressler in Perfect form, and here less gifted foil, Polly Moran. Add to these a husband mild to the point of meekness, a brace of typical screen brats, all the esoteric paraphernalia of a beauty shop, a sub-plot that furnishes the inevitable love interest and it may be seen...
...slap at the general public: "The outlay for cosmetics, cigarets, chewing gum, are expenditures that are in no sense necessities and are distinctly in the luxury class. These luxury expenditures total over five and a half times the total cost of all non-government health services. The amount spent for tobacco alone is three times as much as that spent for physicians and the American people spend more for candy than they do for doctors...
...wanted to take a shower. I came back to the room and I was talking to her when somebody knocked on the door and there was Stiglin. Stiglin says, 'What are you doing here?' I said, 'This lady is my wife.' "They make believe they slap me and finally Stiglin took me out in the hall. He said, 'You fool, why didn't you admit it right away?' I said, 'Well, I don't want to get in bad.' He said, 'Well, never mind. We have got a clear...
...perpetual crouch, with his elbows swinging, resembled some kind of beetle that Camera, punching almost vertically, was trying to crush. He sidestepped many of Camera's left leads but could not get out of the way of the ponderous rights aimed at his body. Camera could slap down his guard and plank a punch over. He did not seem at first to be trying very hard. In the eighth round the referee warned him for hitting low, but by that time Paulino was bleeding from the mouth and right eye. When the decision was properly given to Camera...
...Windsor, N. C., Percy Hevander, reputed never to have taken a dare, was slapping a young girl. McWebb Williams, reputed always to have kept his word, said: "If you slap that girl again, I will shoot you." Both preserved their integrity. Percy Hevander took no dare, slapped her again. McWebb Williams kept his word, shot him dead...