Word: spank
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...your little boy calls your neighbor a naughty name, you can spank the urchin, wash out his mouth with soap and water and not let him ride his bicycle for a week. That usually pacifies the neighbor. But if you run a newspaper and some cub reporter decorates a story with opprobrious epithets, either invented by himself or repeated after a third person, you are, if the epithets get published, responsible for their accuracy to the person described by them. If the injured one sues you, it will do you no good to discharge the cub reporter. You have...
Castle Square--"Abie's Irish Rose", at 8.15: There's always this little darling waiting for us at the end of the paragraph. Papa can't spank you now, he's busy...
...That's what I've always said: Spank 'em and raise blisters, or leave 'em alone and raise Bolsheviks...
...Laurence's party Daisy, a plain little girl, insists on playing with Laurence, tripping him up, creating the impression that she is his " girl"; but Laurence worships Elsie, a lovely little girl who delights in tormenting him (though pretending to be aloof), making the other children spank him, getting him into trouble, and then looking perfectly innocent...
...personal, and, staring intently at me, he said, "Aunty, aunty, ain't that little boy got pretty blue pants?" Blushes and "Hush, hush!" from the unfortunate relative, and a pervasive smile among the passengers. "Where do you s'pose he goes to school?" continued he. Reply inaudible. "Do they spank little boys at Harvard Collig?" The smiles at this period became audible, but as I have read the "Robbers" in my German elective, and sat under the sarcastic professor of themes, I did not blush. On his aunt's murmured reply, he proceeded, "What is a Deene? Does...