Word: snapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...actor to play the roughneck lead in his Broadway comedy, Born Yesterday. What he had in mind was someone along the craggy lines of a jowly, broad-shouldered radio announcer he had known back in the days when he was writing soap operas. ". . . You know," he would impatiently finger-snap, "a Paul Douglas type-but an actor." Unable to find a reasonable facsimile, he finally hired the real thing: Paul Douglas. It was a happy piece of casting; Douglas turned out to be as big a hit as Born Yesterday...
...Snap. Sharp contrast between black & white...
...paddies toward Shanghai. Flicking on the automatic pilot, he leaned back and hung one leg over the arm of his pilot's seat. "One thing you learn fast out here," he said, "and that's how to relax. You just have to put the plane up there, snap on the auto pilot and sit back. It's the only way we can fly as much as we do." In a single year MacWilliams had piled up more than 1,800 hours flying time, more than 150 a month. "They pay well," he said...
Though more conservative newsmen. have tried to laugh him off as a superficial, snap-brimmed Fearless Fosdick of journalism, none can match his hard work or his arm-long record of newsbeats...
...Service. Forrestal and Major General Alfred M. Gruenther, who is attached to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and who had flown down with him, had a word in private with the President afterwards. Photographers who were allowed to snap the scene from a distance of 25 ft. saw Mr. Truman chopping the air with his hands as he talked. Forrestal, it was announced later, had simply reported on a recent six-day trip he had taken to Europe. The interview lasted a scant 45 minutes and Forrestal flew home again...