Word: slaps
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...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...
...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...