Word: swipings
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...poor boy, it's just a shame and a pity to be away from home on Christmas." She took a swipe at the coffee table then flecked an ash from the rug to the floor...
When the opera ended, the supers went upstairs to undress. "Don't try to swipe any swords or helmets," the costume manager warned. "You'll all be searched as you go out the door...
...Your picture of mothers hysterically egging on their children graphically shows the ignorant, savage cruelty that motivates them. I notice that Bryant Bowles also took a swipe at the Jews. Can it be that these vermin consider themselves Christians...
While the prose still gropes in feudal gloom, the three example of verse do display a rising talent. H. B. Corning's title page swipe at football ticket distribution flows neatly, and the effect is only slightly dampened by a rather inept ending. Lack of a punchline is also the principal fault of his verse-captions for a two-page spread on football weekends. The redeeming features of these two layouts are Hill's cartoons. Another such display, Ah, Radcliffe Girl, suffers conversely; Fletcher's verse is clever and light, but most of the drawings, by J. G. Marcos...
Chief Toohy suspects an organized gang of perpetrating the Harkness thefts. "They hang around the area, and when our policemen go past, they duck into rooms and swipe stuff," he said...