Word: snappings
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...Seven Girl Rassle Royal (every girl battling for herself) at the Hippodrome. A widow who described herself as attrac., vivac., affect. & sinc. advertised for a husband in the Los Angeles Mirror. Her reasons: "Wd. enjoy mat. rt. man bec. I did enjoy marriage & comp. Very sinc. Exchange ref. & rec. snap...
Like the turtle, the bureaucrat, hunched up within the comfortable armor plate of civil-service regulations, seldom moves at a pace faster than a lumbering lurch. But head, neck and unwinking eye can zip out with wondrous speed-to snap at a taxpayer, look out a window at a parade, or sip a slow cup of coffee at the nearest Government cafeteria. Last week the Senate heard another little-noted fact about his living habits: he can, and frequently does, enjoy the equivalent of about ten weeks of paid vacation a year...
...from London. Illness can strike one side more than the other at a given time. Many M.P.s have other jobs, requiring their absence from the House. These factors leave any government with a majority of less than 20 at the mercy of the Opposition, which can call for a "snap division" and defeat the government on a serious issue, thus bringing about a new election. ¶But the Tories probably do not want a new election right away. Last week's turnout (84%) was so heavy that neither side has any hope of doing better next time with...
From the prison records, Ellis gets the condemned man's height and weight, then computes the distance the victim must drop to meet the legal requirement that three cervical vertebrae be fractured or dislocated to snap the spinal cord and bring quick death. Ellis does not see the prisoner until a few minutes before the hanging when he steps into the death cell, quietly says "good morning" and straps the man's arms behind his back...
...song informs us that "there are smiles that make us blue." A wave of melancholia caused by such smiling could easily start a wave of suicides. People obliged to smile through their tears would suffer deeprooted psychic conflicts, as well as possible internal drowning. Smiling during a cold snap could easily result in little-known maladies such as frozen teeth and gums...