Word: smackingly
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...Smack in the face of the House, soon after it convened, James Henry Thomas, Laborite Minister for the Dominions, hurled the announcement that Australia had just been granted a two-year moratorium on repayment of her War debt to Great Britain...
...Sunday just two years ago a trimotored Ford of Colonial Western Airways, Inc. faltered over Newark Airport, glided smack into a railroad car loaded with sand. All 14 passengers were killed. Pilot Lou Foote alone surviving what was then U. S. aviation's worst accident. Last week ended the joint trial of six $100.000 damage suits-largest aviation damage trial in the U. S. Verdict: awards of $89.000, varying from...
...Smith would write a weekly newspaper "feature" (TIME, Nov. 24) many there were who expected to see the Brown Derby perched jauntily at the top of every paragraph. Last week the first Smith article appeared in 70 Saturday and Sunday papers. Although Unemployment was the subject, there was no smack of stump-speeching, certainly no Hoover-heckling.* Indeed, Writer Smith noted that "We have had breadlines in New York City even during our most prosperous times." He chided the U. S. public for its short-sighted failure to prepare unemployment relief during days of plenty; upheld the President...
...little village of Ayerbe, about half way between the two towns, the advancing rebels ran smack into a Federal force. A battery of artillery held the road, their six guns leveled. Rebel scouts ran forward, shouting Viva la Republica, believing these troops were friendly too. An officer's arm dropped. A roaring point-blank artillery broadside tore great holes in the screaming, terrified column. Wrote an eyewitness reporter...
...read about things I don't want to know. Once I start on an issue of TIME, I cannot let go a syllable. What the devil do I care about the IMRO in Bulgaria? or about Fascist Hitler? or the scandals of New York? Yet I actually smack my lips after reading what you have to say about...