Word: smackingly
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...Cohan's peculiar virtue must be that he always gives the impression of not having learned his lines. It doesn't matter whose dialogue he is voicing, it is always beyond dispute his own. Fortunately his talk is never too brilliant to lose its smack of complete spontaneity, and it is a revelation to see the wealth of aptness and humor that he can put into a stock rejoinder like "You'd be surprised." Mr. Cohan is not a versatile actor; his own identity is too strong for that. But in the part of the mundane business man who quails...
...lifted up the hammer, and she smote with might and main And hit the nail and drove it smack through the sleeper's brain. The moral of this story of Sisera and Jael: You can never trust a woman with a hammer and a nail...
...would do me good to have another smack at the creeping devils," said he. "The worst of it came during the retreat. Tired and thirsty, we were overtaken by mounted tribesmen who rode among us, cutting down thousands. I escaped by crawling under a heap of dead bodies. Hardly a wounded man on the battlefield escaped mutilation...
...Smack! Dictator Mussolini suppressed Ottobre and sent five Carabinieri and some detectives to protect Sir Eric Drummond, British Ambassador to Italy. In the House of Commons, Captain Eden rose for His Majesty's Government to call the Italian Press "wild." And Major Clement Attlee suggested: "If Italy intends to use force against Abyssinia we should close the Suez Canal to Italian troops...
...agitation, the boycott, the philippies and counter philippies, all smack much more of Washington Square than Williamstown. With its lavish Colonial fraternity houses, its large quota of good cars, and its time-honored indifference, which runs even that of Harvard a close race, Williams can hardly be called a hotbed of radicalism. If the crusade against the Hearst newsreel was successful it is because an increasingly large number of American undergraduates are becoming disgusted with the philosophy of San Simeon. At Williams, as at other universities, they make their wishes felt in the face of a good-naturedly indifferent majority...