Word: snappings
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...Gawd, this job is no snap, believe it or not," grunted Theodore Hilton, domestic at a well-known country club in a recent interview with a CRIMSON reporter. Mr. Hilton was still puffing from his exertions in preventing three merry youths at the dance from pouring punch down the bass horn. They're good, spirited lads I used to get that way myself once," he murmured sadly. "These winter dances are hard work for as waiters: we sure earn our pay. For instance, inside of ten minutes tonight I had to run down cellar and turn off a carbon dioxide...
...nutmeg.*. . . The particular food product that should be stressed is hot milk in cold weather. ... It helps build up protection against colds. . . . "Just before retiring is a good time for hot milk. You take a glass of hot milk, sip slowly, then make one last readjustment of the pillows, snap out the light, pull the coverlets around your shoulders, give a little sigh, the sigh isn't absolutely necessary but usually is done, and the chances are greatly in favor of a good night's slumber descending before you have time to pick up again the count...
...bite. There is no dread of water at any time. "Hydro-phobia" is a misnomer. The dog will drink as long as it can, until constriction of the throat sets in. The second stage of rabies is mania or nervous excitement. The dog may jump in the air, snap at invisible objects. A peculiar, unmistakeable howling begins, not so fast and frequent as the yapping and whining of running fits. The dog is still unlikely to bite persons it knows but will soon begin to "run mad." first at any dog it sees, later in a set course (unlike...
Reason for the excess of child brides over child grooms: the rich old men of Mysore eagerly snap up brides under 10 (even though they may have no dowry) but Mysore boys marry under 10 only when two wealthy families want to conclude an "alliance" before the groom grows up and becomes choosey...
When mad Paul Gorgulov shot France's President Paul Doumer last May, a group of newsphotographers were witnesses. They had their lenses focussed on the President to snap him as he autographed book for War veterans' benefit. The Picture of the Century-the assassination -occurred at that moment. Bearded Louis Piston, who has been photographing celebrities around Paris for 45 years, dropped his flash, swung his camera overhead, clubbed Assassin Gorgulov with it. Photographer Piston got no picture. Last week it became known that he had been elevated to the Legion of Honor. U. S. newsphotographers are notoriously...