Word: snappings
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...appearance he is slim, erect, austere. Under shaggy grey brows, his blue eyes can snap and glare; beneath a grey mustache are lips that can set more grimly than any in the Senate. Before the oil investigations he dressed without care; since then he is trimly tailored and tonsured...
...left hand is not gloved, a reminder that the sole purpose of the right glove is to protect Imperial Habsburg flesh from contact with lips of lesser clay. By no means ridiculous, the illegal "Royalty" of Budapest are taken in. deadly earnest by the populace, by policemen who snap to attention as the "Royal"' motors pass, even by His Serene Highness Governor Horthy of the Kingdom of Hungary, who acts as regent for the vacant but existing Throne. Last week the Archduchess Isabella was reported "prostrated," and H. I. H. is not easily prostrated. All Budapest, all Hungary was agog...
...fashion show that was staged for the special benefit of the Fox Movietone people. Models in it even went so far as to adhere to the fad while wearing both formal and informal evening clothes. Pathe Sound News and other motion picture companies were also on deck today to snap various campus scenes involving the wearers of short pants...
...Rome tall, somewhat imperious Edda Mussolini, whose dark brown eyes have the snap and fire of Il Duce's own, was marrying Galeazzo Ciano, son of Minister of Communications Count Costanzo Ciano di Cortellazzo?a Fascist comparatively little known outside of Italy. But L'Avenir claimed to have positive information that directly after announcement of the engagement on Feb. 15, 1930 the Fascist Grand Council at Rome appointed Count Costanzo Ciano to be II Duce's successor in the event of the Dictator's resignation or death. If printed by an irresponsible sheet this "exclusive revelation" could be safely ignored...
...French Chamber of Deputies the yearly budget debate drags on for dreary weeks, has none of that snap and surprise which makes the British Budget a sort ot Olympic Game always played to packed galleries in the House of Commons (TIME, April...