Word: smacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good, but the next step brought the Dollfuss government smack up against a great and solid mass, the Socialists of Vienna. Viennese Socialists have tolerated, even aided, Engelbert Dollfuss because they know that much as he dislikes them they would receive even shorter shrift from a Nazi government. Last week Prince von Starhemberg shrilled at a Heimwehr meeting...
Into the Hollywood Legion Stadium to see some boxing matches stepped jaunty, garrulous Walter Winchell, gossip colyumist for the New York Mirror. Up from his ringside seat jumped Mammy-Singer Al Jolson, whose big-eyed wife, Ruby Keeler, had started to whimper at the sight of Winchell. Smack went Jolson's fist and down went Winchell. Smack went Jolson's other fist and down went Wrinchell again. After other spectators, including a woman who wielded her sharp-heeled slipper, had driven Jolson off, word buzzed through the excited audience that Ruby Keeler was upset because Winchell...
...Church of England and in the collateral Protestant Episcopal Church of the U. S. High-Churchmen in England and Anglo-Catholics in the U. S. wanted symbolism, celibacy and other "Romish" practices in their worship. Opposed were the Low-Churchmen and the plain Episcopalians, who detested every smack of Rome...
Ostert, a nimble stag, was chased by English huntsmen nine years ago into what they call the English Channel and Frenchmen call La Manche. Defying the English sportsmen, French fishermen pulled the stag aboard their smack, named him Ostert, found him a home in the private park of a French chateau near Le Touquet...
...singing bird does its scales like a tyro, gulps, quivers and heaves like a diva, perches on the sheet music on the piano rack and turns the pages. The dog chases the cat through a clothes wringer. Both come through flattened out like sheet iron, go leaping on, smack into a fence which jolts them back into three dimensions. Nothing in a Disney cinema is ever entirely dead, nothing ever dies, nothing is impossible...