Word: slaps
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...staid, conservative news organs and find the nose of the King-Emperor repeatedly referred to as a "snoot" has given Londoners a delicious, titillating thrill of sacrilege these many months. The sacrilege was last week not only permissible but even laudable because the London press was exulting at the slap administered by Chicago voters, to their blatantly anti-British Mayor, William Hale Thompson (see p. 11). Since Mayor Thompson invented and began the game of calling the nose of George V a snoot, the dignified and conservative London Morning Post permitted itself to gloat, last week: "Evidently the self-respect...
...mutiny, putting back for England, leaving him and two companions to drown or freeze or starve. It is idle and unpleasant to imagine how the tireless captain accomplished death; it is possible, though, to imagine him as he must have looked, sitting in a small boat, listening to the slap of water on its gunwale, watching the departure of his crew with courage, despair and fury...
Shrewd Hearst Editor Arthur Brisbane hastened to slap the epidemic into his column while it was still hot news, unconfirmed, undenied...
...Times had a front page and breakover. The American made it the day's feature. The tabloids, preparing to print pictures of a meal sack labeled "This is what the corpse of Mlle. Roseray looked like when it was dredged out of the puddle"; were able instead to slap somewhat naked pictures of her prominently on their covers...
...James John Walker. Between the acts Mayor Walker ambled nimbly to the stage and praised the piece prodigiously. Which may get him the Negro vote, but will not disguise the fact that Meek Mose, in acting and writing, was irreparably inept. It tells of an aged darky and the slap, slap, slap of life as he turned the other cheek. The inevitable chant of spirituals saved the night from utter rout...