Word: smacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Saint Nicholas & Black Peter. Slow in some respects, the Dutch had outspeeded other Europeans in the matter of Santa Claus last week, as they do every year. To strict Calvinistic subjects of devout Queen Wilhelmina it would smack of blasphemy to observe Dec. 25 otherwise than with solemn thanks in church for the birth of their Savior. They figure, however, that Santa Claus, or St. Nicholas, the patron saint of Generosity, was born on Dec. 6, do their giving then. Dutchmen conceive the Saint as a bishop whose ecclesiastic dignity is above lugging presents around in a sack. This...
...figure of the Mississippi and the nubile female Missouri, each followed by a lolloping train of Naiads and Tritons, can face each other, in the fountain's splashing centre, they must be set in place, unveiled. Coming to do the first, stocky, soft-voiced Carl Milles, 64, ran smack into an argument about the second. Sculptor Milles, who had refused to fig-leaf his statues, also refused to commit himself on whether the fountain should be unveiled as soon as finished or not until next spring...
...Beacon Hill hideaway is popularly supposed to be a scene of secret orgies between Bill Cunningham and a mythical secretary named Ima Smack that Bill once invented to explain his delay in answering letters. One day a Boston department-store executive gave Bill a life-size wax model of Miss Smack. Bill stretched her out among the littered papers on his couch, with her skirts up and a champagne glass in her hand, horrified an old gentleman who came to see him. Bill tried to explain that Miss Smack was a model, but the old gentleman went away muttering: "Your...
Underlying all these explanations, however, was the conviction that the Poles were magnificent fighters. If Sheridan's victorious armies at the end of the Civil War had driven into French-dominated Mexico, reached Mexico City, then been driven smack back to Denver, the legend of Mexican fighting strength might have been as firmly rooted in U. S. life as the legend of peppery Poles was ingrained in Russian thought. That was one of the reasons why, last week, Russians had a lot of trouble explaining the German advance and their own defeat...
...Netherlands' fast-driving Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld, madcap son-in-law of Queen Wilhelmina, went a-racing across a lake in his speedboat, crashed smack into a small motorboat, sank it. Into the water jumped Prince Bernhard, pulled out a wet father, three wet little children. When Netherlands newspapers got wind of the episode they promptly printed nothing about it, instead plastered their front pages with the first pictures of Papa Bernhard's two-weeks-old second daughter, Irene...