Word: snappings
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...Budapest policemen snap to salute as the gleaming motor cars of the immensely rich, deposed Habsburg Archdukes pass. The U. S. Minister and the rest of the diplomatic corps periodically attend archducal levees-mere playacting, but taken in aristocratic earnest...
...were the Cornell entries, and Butterworth and Richardson wore the Green colors in the race. Levering took the pole, and held it for only a short stretch, losing it to Fox, who was closely followed by Cobb. On the last lap, with Cobb leading, Levering had the misfortune to snap the string of his trunks. Patterson, however, came forward and matched strides with the Crimson runner, finally breaking ahead to win by a scant four yards. Fox surprised all by uncorking a fine sprint which brought him ahead of Levering and into third place at the finish. The time...
...policies, explained how dear to the United States of Mexico are the United States of America, and the ceremony was over. A dapper young man in a neat black suit by the name of Daniel Flores left the stadium in disgust. Cameramen tripped over Congressmen in their efforts to snap President Ortiz Rubio publicly kissing ex-President Fortes Gil. Telegraphers in the press section clicked wordy comment on the stability of Mexico's new government, wired that at last a Mexican President had been inaugurated without bloodshed or attempted assassination...
...with his unique camera hidden beneath a napkin, Editor Bott's "Cyclops" can and does snap the Very Rev. William Ralph Inge, Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, in the act of sleeping through a speech at an Anglo-Finnish Society dinner. At the English-Speaking Union dinner, the Archbishop of Canterbury was snapshot six times, peering, grimacing, pinching his chin. Timothy A. Smiddy, High Commissioner of the Irish Free State, was seen smacking his lips over what was clearly not his first glass...
...argue that any one part of its curriculum is more militaristic than another. Marching is no more martial than a technical knowledge of naval gunnery, and plays at least as important a part in the making of an officer. Furthermore, Naval Science has unfortunately been branded as a snap course, offering an easy grade and, if the undergraduate so desires, a pleasant summer cruise. Compulsory drill every week will have the added advantage of discouraging the student seeking "gentlemen" grades with a minimum expenditure of energy...