Word: smacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hughes Curtis began to tell his tale of mysterious boat trips and constant failures to bring Col. Lindbergh into contact with the men he said were in possession of the child, Col. Schwarzkopf lent a polite, attentive ear. Mr. Curtis described and gave the approximate position of the fishing smack on which he had supposedly interviewed the child's captors. The Coast Guard sent 39 craft and three amphibian planes to find it, with no success. His identification of the criminals by nicknames proved similarly untrustworthy. At last, early on the fifth morning after the child's body was found...
...Junior Common Room and the Senior Common Room in Kirkland both smack of the hotel influence in American interior decoration. With wisdom the officials have refrained from putting a raised alcove in the dining room to the services of any high table. Just off the Dining Room is the Committee Room, with its Directors table and twelve chairs, where the Coffee Pot and other organizations meet...
...were no longer operative. An alternate proposal by New York's Senator Wagner, wise to joblessness, was that the money be apportioned to States on the basis of their unemployment registry in the 1930 census. Observers sensed that the Senate was groping desperately for a plan that did not smack of the politically fearful word DOLE...
...gave themselves up to quiet ironic chuckling at the ghost-laying of Democrats Baker and Roosevelt. "The Reno-like celerity with which Democratic leaders are seeking to divorce themselves from the League of Nations," observed New Hampshire's tart Senator Moses, "is interesting and amusing. . . . Deathbed conversions, however, smack of the theatrical." To this Idaho's Senator Borah piously added: "Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand...
...Whack, smack, thwack...