Word: snappings
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...probably a good idea to have it behind you; and secondly, if you want to ease your program for the second half year it will turn the trick very nicely. Lest there be any misunderstanding let it be made clear that it is not an out and out snap course. It probably used to be; but Professor Hooton found that out, and it has been so stiffened that it is only a very simple course...
...first dress rehearsal of the Harvard Dramatic Club's fall production. "The Chisholm Trail" will be held in Brattle Hall today from 11 o'clock until midnight. Newspaper photographers will be on hand to snap pictures of each scene after its rehearsal...
...Mackenzie is a newspaper man. His stories smack of the copy desk, and have all the snap of a star reporter. But their present appearance in book form makes possible, in addition, a more finished and artistic treatment than is allowed by the exigencies of a first edition. There is included a wealth of descriptive and dramatic detail,--excerpts from psychiatrists' reports, selections from letters, transcripts from diaries, bits of testimony,--worked in with the essential facts of each crime. And so skillfully is it done that the imaginings of a Conan Doyle or an Arthur Train seem like poor...
...tense, highly nervous situations, but in writing them. Mr. Hemingway does not himself become overwrought: with fine restraint, with a knife-like humor, the author recounts the tragedies and failures of his characters. He writes in the simplest possible terms, in starling pictures, as clear and sharp as snap-shots. In the dialogue, Mr. Hemingway maintains the tempo of his stories: exciting it is, intense, profane, and idiomatic, so real it might have been recorded on a dictaphone to be set down at leisure. This nimble athletic technique seems ideally suited to the short story form. Since he wrote...
...lung-power behind it, with its full energy directed to the field and to the game there being played,--let us substitute an ingenious concoction of shrieks, whistles, walls, and hoarse laughter, the latter evincing that we are, beyond a doubt, jolly college boys and full of zest and snap on all occasions, whether our team is good...