Word: slaps
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...Hoover would succeed him. Nettled by insistent insinuations, the President answered sharply that Mr. Kellogg was not resigning and that, in any case, Mr. Hoover would not succeed him. Pining for a sensation, the correspondents rushed off and filled the press for days with one of their favorite words? "slap." The President, they reiterated, had "slapped at" Secretary of Commerce Hoover. The President at first ignored this press palaver but, when it did not abate, reproved the correspondents by saying he considered Mr. Hoover capable of fitting any portfolio a President has to give...
...slapjack, to slap the seven of clubs (or other non-jack...
...night in a tent pitched about a mile from Quemados, Cuba, thirsty mosquitoes sang their monotonous whining song; on a cot, Private John R. Kissinger lay awake. It was hot and sticky; he did not slap the stinging pests away. He had volunteered to Dr. Walter Reed, head of the U. S. Yellow Fever Commission, to subject himself to the bites of mosquitoes that had sucked the blood of men ill with the fever; in this way the Commission hoped to find whether the mosquito carried the deadly germ.* He made the offer knowing that his chances for life were...
...singing career in Boston. "I don't believe in it for women; let us leave just a little of the poetry attached to the name of woman. Of course it is all right for men; but when I see women and especially young girls smoking I could slap their faces right and left...
Also last week, Michael Ponkraskow Jr., 11, of Richmond Mill, L. L, "made mad" by a slap from his father, left home, borrowed a pistol, held up Shopkeeper Marcus Gold, for supper money, murdered Mr. Gold...