Word: slappings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will be jittery Bo McMillin's and slap-happy Indiana's day of days if Purdue can be hurdled this week. If not, the Big Ten title will go to the winner of the Ohio State-Michigan (both once-beaten) game-and it will still be the Hoosiers' best season...
Salvador Dali, a slick painter and a calculating showman, who has made surrealism into a lucrative side show, combines the methods of the old masters and the madness of a slap-happy showoff. Both method and madness were appallingly apparent, as usual, in a new Dali show of eleven recent paintings which opened this week in Manhattan's Bignou Gallery. He did all eleven in just nine months. The paintings were so delicately labored, so ingeniously jumbled, and so elaborately inconsequential that gallery-goers went away wondering how a mustachioed, 52-year-old child could possibly display such professional...
...ultramodern, highly mobile" establishment built around air power. He proposed a force of 5,000 combat planes standing always ready on airfields, manned and maintained by 400,000 men, backed by a reserve of 3,000 planes partly manned by National Guardsmen. The Army, he said, with a sidewise slap at Army control of the air forces, had not yet seen fit to submit the proposal...
Labor got a sharp slap across the face last week. Andrew Jackson Higgins, New Orleans' big, bluff shipbuilder, announced that he would close down his three plants, sell them to the highest bidder, and farm out his fat $40,000,000 peacetime contracts to other manufacturers. Reason: labor strife that never seemed...
...Cordial, Friendly." Russia followed its slap at Michael with a pat for Groza. In Moscow the Rumanian Premier and his Government received an elaborate endorsement. Welcomed to the capital on a scale customarily reserved for top diplomatic personages, the pleased, impressed Premier intoned: "I am happy that for the first time I tread the Moscow earth. Light comes from the east...