Word: slaps
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...drums go bang, the cymbald clang, Cas is a father, he breaks one engagement and makes two, abducts his own child, and relaxes his Dr. Wassell expression to play nursemaid to his daughter in a cheap hotel room. As in all comedy everybody lives happily with a capital slap...
...Guerrero: "They let us fish, then stole our fish and sold it back. They burned all our books. They made us take off our hats and bow when they went by. At first they would take our girls away and if they would not go to bed they would slap them and then take a big stick and beat them. Then the Japs brought in their own women...
Taken from the book of the same name, the movie tells of a slightly slap-happy draftee who can never do the right thing. He salutes back sergeants and smiles benignly at majors and colonels. Hargrove! Clean those garbage cans! Hargrove, played by Robert Walker, falls into the company of an ace goldbrick, Keenan Wynn, whose shrewdness is exceeded only by his ability to make a sucker of Hargrove. As a result of the goldbrick's efforts, the hard luck private accidently acquires a sweetheart, is transferred to a soft job, and then rejoins his old company when he learns...
...that the Argentine Government had not enjoyed U.S. recognition since last February. Said the man-in-the-Calle-Florida: "What difference does it make? There's no recognition anyway." But the simultaneous departure of the Ambassadors of Peru, Paraguay and Chile (with others planning to follow) was a slap in the face for Argentine militarists...
Actually the Committee's slap at General Patton will cost him little more than prestige. He already has almost 40 years' service, is thus eligible to retire at any time on three-quarters pay. The law says that an officer retires at the highest rank he held in active service. So when General Patton retires, he will be a lieutenant general anyhow...