Word: snagging
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...setting, Miss Secretary of Labor Perkins is doing her best to push her pet labor project through its last barrier, the House. This bill, known as the Black bill, makes a compulsory thirty-hour week for industry. In the process of its legal fruition it has fortunately struck a snag and there is every reason to believe sweeping changes must and will be effected in it, for as it is now constituted, this opus of Mr. Black is of serious portent to both labor and any economic renaissance...
Ohio, Wyoming, and Pennsylvania will be as close as a Ku Klux Klan barber shaving Al Smith. I figure that the Leland Stanford football manager will snag two of them...
...depict. But the symbolism of Freud, although it professes to general application, does not carry even ordinary conviction to most people, and a literature and art which used these symbols as a literal; imagery by which to express their ideas, threatened to be esoteric. It was upon this snag that the first Surrealistes were hung, and word went about that the movement was finished. The younger painters, however, now find that by intuition a more plausible imagery may be evolved; and new interest was aroused in this doctrine by the exhibition two years ago in Paris of paintings...
...Federal Structures Committee of the Indian Round Table Conference was scheduled to open on Monday. Immediately there was a snag. Monday is St. Gandhi's day of silence...
...Madrid, Marques de Tena, after blandly denying to reporters that he had received any "orders" from King Alfonso, ran against an immediate snag. White whiskered Senor Sanchez Guerra stubbornly refused to have truck or traffic with any Spanish Royalists who had defended or been members of Primo de Rivera's dictatorship...