Word: swipings
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...idea of our progress," said Cecil Harmsworth King, "I would like to digress." Then, before the annual meeting of stockholders in London last week, the proprietor of the world's largest publishing house, the Mirror Group (London Daily Mirror, Sunday Pictorial, plus 220 other periodicals), took a telling swipe at freedom of the press-British style. Said King...
...slacks look like the back end of hacks"), assaulting high fashion ("Their models look as if they had just been blown out of a wind tunnel"), hitting back at the birds ("There ought to be a law that makes pigeon feeding a crime"), or taking a good-natured swipe at the opposite gender ("Man is indeed the weaker sex, worse luck"), Inez Robb interprets the world she roams with an inexhaustible vivacity that can make her competitors' columns read like the telephone book...
...Evelyn was mauled by an irate lion when she was appearing at a Shriners' circus in Chattanooga. Many circus people wondered if she could ever do the act again. Last week, on opening night, she had been in the cage only three minutes before a lion took a swipe at her. Evelyn, armed only with the traditional chair, got him under control and finished...
...bath in water heated to more than 170° is believed by many health departments to be sufficient sterilization for previously washed utensils. But in busy bars, where the bartender has little light to see by and little time to spend with the dishes, the casual, conversational "dip and swipe" method is the common way of washing glasses...
...Western Prince Boun Oum, but he was brooding at home. Souvanna cheerfully told reporters he would do everything possible to bring about a "definite solution." Stern-faced Souphanouvong read off a two-page propaganda speech denouncing Boun Oum for "aggravating and complicating the political situation" and took a swipe at the "warmongering activities...