Word: snappings
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...Think of the movie actors in Hollywood. You think they have a snap until you face those big lights and microphones and cameras. I believe they get more happiness out of one or two years of marriage than an average person does in a life time...
...Morgan went to the rail, smiled, said: "No, not even one minute." Thus he exposed himself to Photographer Wil letts. Then he heard the shutter snap and, now not smiling, fled along the deck...
...When rushes of the film were shown on safari, the natives rolled on the ground with laughter, regardless of the nature of the sequence. At Rhino Town, on the White Nile, Pressagent McClain came upon a tribe of natives all naked save that one of them sported a neat, snap-brim brown hat. Removing the hat, Mr. McClain was surprised to find the label: Brooks Bros.,? Madison Ave., New York. And although the film shows many a fierce jungle beast, the troupe spent six weeks at $2,000 a day trying to persuade some crocodiles to snap...
...Irrepressible Count Felix ("Sea Devil") von Luckner last week set out with friends on his schooner Mophelia to cruise and shark-fish in the Bahamas. His shark-tackle: A 100-ft. rubber rope which, he solemnly declared, would snap sharks out of the water when they finished their rushes...
...Cold snap and cold brains leave the Vagabond with nothing to do but place feet on the andirons and consider the pretzel divinities of yesterday: the old beery Gods of Examinations that were so glorious until Mencken and the literary smart set made sauerkraut out of them. In that mind's eye of his that has enfolded so much nebulosity, the Vagabond at rest watches with the sad sublimity of a Greek stoic the passing of Harvard into tabloid education, the riveting of its density to gilded monuments of steel and brick. In the dim light that gleams through...