Word: snappings
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...trustees, Lawyer Herbert Maass and Edgar S. Bamberger, retired vice president of the famed Newark department store. With them they had a customs inspector, to get the Einsteins quietly off the ship. They had forgotten to bring an immigration officer. While they waited, news cameramen managed to snap the Einsteins-the Herr Doktor, bewildered, trying to shield himself by waving his violin case, his wife resolutely crying: "No! No! No! No interviews!" At length the Einsteins climbed into the tug, chuffed off to the Battery where an automobile waited to take them to Princeton. Meanwhile, on the Westernland...
...finalists, four men and four women, went through their paces: three deadstick landings to a spot, two loops, a spin, two Immelman turns, two snap rolls-not prodigious feats, but calling for skill. Neatest performance was made by a woman, Mrs. Cecil W. ("Teddy") Kenyon of Waban, Mass. Pretty, blonde wife of a former transport pilot, Mrs. Kenyon received $5,000 and the title of champion airwoman. Not so good as Mrs. Kenyon at spot landings, but unsurpassed at aerobatics was an engaging young man named Felix William ("Bill") Zelcer, proprietor of Manhattan's famed White Horse Tavern...
...about dusk yesterday a battery of cameras was gathered around University Hall to snap the notables as they emerged from the inauguration ceremonies, and especially to catch President Conant. While the photographers trained their instruments on the south entrance, a slim figure clad in a felt hat and gray overcoat with collar turned up, slipped down the north steps and disappeared from the Yard in the direction of Memorial Hall. Some ten minutes later the newshawks were glibly informed by a grinning Yard cop that the president had left...
...work in German and say so in the prefaces. As in preparatory school courses, the examinations are marked solely on the basis of literal translation of selected passages. The course will satisfy the student seeking to enlarge his vocabulary or the already well-versed German scholar who wants a "snap" courses, but a half year is enough for either...
...language courses, Italian 1 is pleasantly dull. Each day students appear with their reading or composition prepared, and the whole period is devoted to cramming grammar and vocabulary into them. Anyone wishing a reading knowledge in this language will find this course useful. However, those who simply want a "snap" should not include this course...