Word: snapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Uncle Sam is closing in on the Duke with a vengeance. Tenser and tenser becomes the rack on which everybody including the audience is strung, until there comes the inevitable snap. Startling things happen in the denouement, to the staccato tune of rifle and machine-gun fire. And as you leave the theatre, slightly stupefied, you find all sorts of psychological problems of intricate relationships and true identities clamoring for solution. You also find six or sever characters impressed indelibly if somewhat confusedly upon you memory, which is saying a lot for a movie. "The Petrified Forest" is an awesome...
...took the wheel of his car again, drove to the north entrance of No. 10 Downing St. just off the Horse Guards Parade. For nearly an hour he conferred with Mr. Stanley Baldwin. News cameramen, mostly the hardest-boiled of journalists, were asked by Edward not to snap him "in the circumstances." Not a single camera was raised, not a single shutter snapped...
...official photographer disappeared under his black cloth, Chinese cameramen began to snap. Suddenly out of a Chinese camera was whipped a pistol. Bang, bang, bang! Three bullets winged Premier Wang in the arm, neck and abdomen. As he crumpled, the pantherlike Generalissimo and China's whole quick-triggered élite were returning the assassin's fire...
Today the Tigers field 10 lettermen, an aggregation which overcame the Crimson at Cambridge last year. And they are eager to snap out of the lethargy which they have thus far shown, at the expense of Coach Jack Carr...
Meanwhile last week His Majesty's Loyal Opposition-the Labor Party- demanded an opportunity before the snap election to present and have the House of Commons debate a motion censuring the Government for shortcomings in regard to unemployment relief. To avert this and gag the Opposition last week, Mr. Baldwin declared: "The question of unemployment is of profound importance [but] I am afraid the only thing to do in the circumstances is. in the words of the sporting papers, to change venue. A vote of censure will be moved in the country before the one tribunal by whose decision...