Word: slaps
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...hostess, is in mulatto makeup much of the time. Because the story, de pending mostly on character, is a strong one, because the background is unusually well directed, the picture is worth seeing in spite of several long, slow dialog sequences. Best shot: Miss Dresser making the no-good slap her face to impress her daughter...
...Little Show. Like an animated issue of such smart charts as Vanity Fair and The New Yorker is this revue, gathered by clever Manhattanites from the fancies, satires, slap-sticks of their native city. Merry, squint-eyed Fred Allen, whose voice sounds as though it ran over a ratchet, is chief wisecracker. Elongated Clifton Webb does a variety of turns, from elegant ballroom maneuvers to a parody of the John Erskine school of historical fiction. At one point, dressed as a Carthaginian warrior, he keeps languidly remarking: "Oh nuts!" It was in the best interests of mirth to revive George...
...supporting cast is above the average. For pure assinine slap-stick Jack Sheehan and Doris Patston would be hard to beat. Pierce and Harris, however, the skilled dancing team, win the most applause from the audience. Girls, girls, girls, with colorful futuristic settings and gay music, put the finishing touches to a production which is sure to satisfy the musical comedy appetite...
...packed tight with brick. On its side was the dusty legend. GREINER CONTRACTING CO., INC. A child screamed. A few hours later surgeons amputated what was left of her crushed left leg. Lorries of the Greiner company continued to haul brick through Brooklyn streets. Bricklayers continued to slap their trowels for the Audley Clarke Co., which had contracted with the Greiner company for the delivery of the brick. This was seven years...
...Nation A slaps Nation B, then B must slap A before A and B can patch up their quarrel without loss of honor...