Word: swatting
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...deal lock, stock & barrel. Once before Wendell Willkie had refused to champion what he believed to be bad policy in order to make a campaign issue-on that occasion he endorsed conscription. This time he was in a hotter spot. Some Republican leaders, isolationists by tradition and anxious to swat Roosevelt, saw in the destroyer deal an opportunity for him to seize a red hot emotional issue...
Married. Julia Ruth, 23, adopted daughter of baseball's ex-King of Swat George Herman ("Babe") Ruth; and Richard Wells Flanders, 31; in Manhattan. The Babe presented the bride with one of his old bats...
...believer in repetition, Sculptor Wheelock keeps on experimenting. His lively, engaging pieces range from a plump, belligerent figure of Fiorello LaGuardia to an abstract, pinafored Little Girl, from a bat-swinging Babe Ruth (Sultan of Swat), all curves and planes, to a shiny, swivel-hipped Black Dancer. "When a man stops adventuring," says practical Warren Wheelock, "he stops being an artist...
...much availability nettled his boyhood friend, Senator Bennett Champ Clark, who is rather dark-horsy himself. Stark, cracked Clark, was a candidate for President, Vice President, Secretary of the Navy, War, High Commissioner to the Philippines, Ambassador to Great Britain, and "has been favorably mentioned as the Akhoond of Swat." Said Clark, he preferred a less scattered character, would therefore support the incumbent, Senator Harry Truman...
...hefty, two-fisted* Author Ernest Hemingway sat in a swank Manhattan nightspot, one Eddie Chapman, broker, sneered: "So you're Hemingway? . . , Tough guy, huh?" and pushed him in the face. Said a friend at Hemingway's table: "Swat him but don't draw blood." Hemingway swatted...