Word: snappings
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...resplendent Senate committee room, marble-pillared and hung with crystal chandeliers, sat a group of bored Senators. Some studied the lofty ceiling, some doodled, some blinked at the witnesses who were still parading before them after four long weeks. Every once in a while, like snapping turtles at sight of a bug, they stretched out their necks to snap and gobble...
Every amateur photographer, having suffered this painful anticlimax, knows that he could take better snapshots if he could see the print at once, correct his errors and snap again...
...first time in her 67 years, Sally Elizabeth Richardson visited a beauty shop. (To a photographer trying to snap her picture under the dryer, she exclaimed: "My goodness! I wouldn't want anyone to see me in pins!") Then, her grey hair neatly curled, Miss Lizzie stopped at the post office for her mail and was swamped by letters of congratulation from ex-pupils all over...
...Actually, he is a sensationally successful huckster, known far & wide among radiomen as The Great Salesman. He loves Donald Duck, practical jokes and the Notre Dame team. He signs his letters with a great big friendly "Ed." In his office is an eight-foot bull whip; Ed likes to snap it around and make like a slave-driver. But all his employees know that Ed is just kidding; he's really a card. His office door is always open, and to make perfectly sure that nobody gets any uppity ideas, Ed has had interoffice partitions torn down in Mutual...
...life. Perhaps they actually poison the fish; perhaps they suffocate fish by blocking their gills. But there is no quick remedy. This week dead fish, but fewer of them, were still coming ashore. The only thing Florida chambers of commerce could do was hope that the next cold snap would clear the sea of yellow-green streaks...