Word: whacks
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...case last year, Arthur Weindorf, a piddling punster and an ugly draughtsman, was the worst offender. He depicted a woman leaning out of an upper berth in a pullman to whack a bald, bearded interloper with a slipper, and called it Birth Control...
...condensed as one on a clean new blanket which the 30th Infantry, now stationed at the Presidio in San Francisco, last week draped upon Arizona and then saluted. While the men marched by him, Arizona, little knowing that he had committed "valor under fire," but doubtless remembering many a whack on the behind in the days when he dragged a field gun, rolled a mulish eye at Brigadier-General Frank C. Bolles and mulishly munched carrots...
...TIME [Oct. 10] I am desecrated to read of an "octogenarian thwack." What is a thwack if it is not a "fancy spelling" of whack...
Thwack v. Whack...
...words can be perfect synonyms. A "whack" is a blow delivered much in the same way as a "thwack," but it presupposes a certain capable nonchalance in the deliverer. A thwack is a blow delivered more clumsily, though with equal vigor, by some person not accustomed to administering physical violences; as a timid schoolboy, an enraged English butler, any octogenarian...