Word: snapper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tardieu L'Américain lashed into the Deputies a proposal to hold three sessions every week day until the budget is voted. If they must talk, let it be morning, noon and night, until the bitter end. With much grumbling they assented. Then Tardieu did a double-snapper with his whip-demanded that they sit thrice a day on Sunday too. Rebellion loomed, but Ringmaster Tardieu fired a figurative blank cartridge, demanded a vote of confidence. After less than a month in Power he has the Deputies so thoroughly cowed that they licked his hand...
Proud was he of that "snapper" on the end of his acceptance speech. He said afterward: "I suppose I've gone Cal one better with that 'Who could say no?' I'll pay for that. Some wag will follow me to my grave...
...harass a Cabinet officer by nipping and snapping at his ankles is the legislative pastime of not a few Senators and Congressmen. Such a nipper-snapper is Tennessee's rubicund Senator McKellar who, at the Senate's brief special session last month, raised the question of Andrew William Mellon's eligibility to serve President Hoover as Secretary of the Treasury. Always antagonistic to Secretary Mellon, Senator McKellar, by resolution, asked...
Macomber will have his hands full with Captain McMillan of Princeton, who has been one of the bulwarks of the Tiger line for the last two years. If need arises McMillan may be shifted to guard, in which case Bartell will be in the snapper back position...
...survivors, Captain McMillan, who has been holding down the pivot berth, has been moved over to guard. Bartell, up to now an end, has been put in the center to fill the place left vacant by McMillan's shift. Bartell is not a novice at the snapper-back position, having had experience as a center on his Freshman team two years...