Word: slaps
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American jazz artists, much incensed, expect a protest from Secretary Hughes. Vincent Lopez, famed Manhattan jazz conductor, ejaculated: "If this is official action by the French Government it is a slap at America. It seems hardly possible that such could be the case...
...touched by the heat. But the picture is made consistently interesting through good direction, through good acting by Percy Marmont, Leatrice Joy, Adolph Menjou and particularly Laska Winter as a half-caste girl, and through a smashing wreck at sea which solves the triangular situation with one slap of the waves...
...some of the men whom recent political events have brought into the limelight. "We are not among those who say upon all occasions: 'Keep silent and obey;' but we do believe that discussions at the present time are most in opportune." Eventually Benito came hurrying home to slap the hands of the naughty and insist upon discipline, quiet and obedience within the Fascista Party. Deputy Rocca, close friend of Benito and one of the 52 founders of the Party in 1919, dared to answer Benito back. Benito expelled him from the party, stating that his attacks upon Signor...
...Things Happen. Clemence Dane, English lady, author of Will Shakespeare and A Bill of Divorcement, has a new melodrama on American boards. A very dreadful affair culminating in a slap. Katherine Cornell plays the heroine under the Jane Austen name of Shirley Pride. But Shirley is not at all a Jane Austen character. Her manly foster brother, played by Tom Nesbitt, has played fast and loose with some one else's bonds for the sake of a little spitfire wench. Shirley, in love with foster brother, purchases the evidence of his guilt from a salacious clerk at the price...
Italian officers and soldiers of cowardice. Bruno Gemelli, Italian War hero and recipient of the gold medal for military valor, telegraphed him to consider himself slapped in the face, challenged him to a duel on the field of honor. M. Cassagrain, who failed to get any sting out of the hypothetical slap, telegraphed back that his wife was responsible for the derogatory statements about the Italian Army, begged to be excused...