Word: snappings
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...plumpness with snappy, well-tailored suits. Since he was convicted last May of official malfeasance in the purchase of city supplies (TIME, May 23). the Mayor has made less than half a dozen appearances before the City Council, fewer public speeches. In Butler, Pa. one day last week he snapped at his oldtime friends, the Press photographers, when they crowded around him. They wanted to snap him because he had just been sentenced to six months in jail, a $5,000 fine and removal from office...
Before Count Charles could summon all the Deputies who usually support him, the Chamber passed a snap vote of no confidence 82 to 72. Necessarily Count Charles announced the resignation of his Cabinet, started for the Royal Palace...
...Last week his doctors forbade the King to return to flu-racked London, kept him at Sandringham where a cold snap froze an ornamental pond. While Queen Mary sat placidly on a little bench. His Majesty put on skates, and to the plaudits of his Household and guests scorned his 67 years by cutting slow figure 8's, practicing his inner and outer edge...
...Contrary to snap judgment all the people-red, white, black & yellow-who lived & died from 1492 until 1880 in what is now the U. S. did not equal the 123 millions who now inhabit...
...pile of fresh meat, tied in neat little rolls, lying just inside their fence one morning last week. But the 15 pure-bred dachshunds which she let out for an airing soon scented it. Scurrying on their stubby, crooked legs, they tumbled and fought in their eagerness to snap up the juicy morsels...