Word: smacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Martinique, Deputy Joseph Samuel Lagrosillière, brandishing like a club a rolled up copy of La Liberté which had cast upon him Stavisky innuendoes. Crack! and Crack! the Negro Deputy struck twice in the face with La Liberté one of its editorial writers. Deputy Desire Ferry. Smack!-Writer Ferry retorted with a punch to the jaw which sent Martinique's Lagrosillière reeling groggily, then shouted at him, "I demand satisfaction by arms...
...Herren Hitler, Goring and Goebbels. Would not Old Paul commute the sentence of Dutchman van der Lubbe to imprisonment? All Holland was hopeful when the Nazi-controlled Press threw out strong, repeated hints that President von Hindenburg would accede to Queen Wilhelmina's request. Overnight came a Nazi smack in the face to Holland. Van der Lubbe's head had been cut off, the German Government announced, without prior notice of any sort to either Queen Wilhelmina or the German public. Obeying strict orders from Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, German newspapers barely mentioned...
Though these exhortations for a sentimental revival may smack of preparatory school editorial propaganda, it is a deplorably true and serious commentary on our present mode of college life. Purchase of a Yale song Book ought to prove a worthy investment...
...motored Dornier Wal* named Monsoon, of the type which Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau thrice flew from Germany to the U. S. Carrying a crew of four and a Luft Hansa director, the Monsoon flew up from British Gambia, headed west by south, caught the radio beacon of the Westphalen. Smack on her course after six hours the Monsoon picked up the floating airdrome in the middle of the Atlantic. Unlike an aircraft carrier, or a huge mid-ocean landing field such as the U. S. Public Works Administration has been asked to finance (at $30,000,000 for a chain...
...without announcing his visit in advance, Minister MacVeagh descended wrathfully on the Greek Foreign Office, spoke his mind to flustered Foreign Minister Demetrios Maximos who perspired profusely, waved his hands and wriggled in his chair but stood firmly by the guns of Greek Justice. Later Mr. MacVeagh returned to smack down under M. Maximos' nose one of the angriest little notes ever authorized by the U. S. State Department: "I am instructed to inform Your Excellency that the United States Government has learned with astonishment that the Greek authorities have again declined to honor the request of the United...