Word: slappings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eleven candidates for eight vacant vice presidencies-general of D. A. R. was Mrs. Theodore Jesse Hoover, the President's sister-in-law. She was defeated by 37 votes. The idea spread that her rejection was intended as a slap at President Hoover. The Daughters explained that it was nothing of the kind, that her defeat was primarily due to a factional fight in the California delegation...
...waves. Wilhelm II, when Kaiser and All Highest War Lord, used to ask visiting royal males below the rank of Emperor to lean out a certain window, the better to watch troops parading below. When they did so the All Highest would give their posteriors a resounding, open-palm slap, would laugh and laugh...
...stropped to the slap of belts on booming spools, spurred...
...chief distinction in the Senate is a fortune estimated at 30 to 50 million dollars. In his class financially is Michigan's Senator James Couzens who sold out his share of Ford Motor Co. in 1915 for 30 million. Few are the Senators who slap him on the back or call him "Larry." Except when he is taking his autumn, winter or spring vacation, he can generally be found in his front-row aisle seat, his hands crossed on his stomach, a far-away look on his face. He wears grey expensive suits, $10 blended neckties. His hair...
...curious crowd. He looked as if he were leading a parade. Casually he threw away the stub of the cigar he was smoking. The crowd wavered, broke, dove into the gutter for the treasured butt. Citizen Coolidge halted to watch men, women and children scramble and scratch, kick and slap. A woman arose from the scrimmage with the remains of the cigar. As she dropped it into her handbag, Citizen Coolidge grinned his amusement...