Word: snappings
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...Snap, snap...
Shortly after noon, William Fox, coat collar turned up, snap-brim hat bent down over his face, arrived to give his verdict, to choose between the new trusteeship or receivership. So momentous did he consider the occasion he let his photo be taken, for the first time in 15 years. Looking straight ahead, he hurried into the building, entered Judge Coleman's private office. The attorneys waited outside, hoping that this day would see an end to one of the greatest tangles of recent financial history. An hour and a half later the Fox answer came. Judge Coleman, alone...
...Chancellor thumbed not once but several times. When either of the Germans made a demand to which the Allies were not prepared to yield, the right Snowden thumbnail was placed tight under the Snowden upper front teeth and snapped twice in accompaniment to the words: "Not a bit of it! [snap] not a bit of it! [snap]" Provocative though this gesture was, Dr. Curtius and Dr. Moldenhaur did not seem to think they were being insulted, since the bony fingers of the Yorkshireman were not spread but closed and doubled as he thumbed...
...Take the Young Plan or leave it! I do not propose to spend the rest of my life at The Hague! [snap...
...racketeers. Playwright Edwin Justus Mayer (The Firebrand), always partial to historical gloss, has developed his newest play from suggestions given by the late great Novelist Henry Fielding in History of the Life of the late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great. The scene is laid in the house of Mr. Snap, gaoler of London's Newgate Prison, in the year 1725. It is Mr. Snap's custom to invite to his home as heavily paying guests the more affluent and well-favored of the criminals in his charge. Thus, when the play begins, the company includes the paunchy rascal...