Word: snap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years, the stripling Hamlet has followed Rossetti's advice to study painting. Among his comrades at the Royal Academy is a shy, ruddy-faced youth in rough homespun and thick boots. This man's eyes can "snap and sparkle . . . beam with sympathy." His laugh is infectious. He has just written a book and asks the stripling (Johnston Forbes-Robertson) to take it to his journalist-father for criticism. The book is Erewhon; the shy man, Samuel Butler...
...Southampton. The unplumbed, salt, estranging sea is no friend to tennis players. It sends its fogs to swell catgut strings so that a dry day will snap them; it strangles the buoyant spirits of balls; its rains rot turf, soften sand. All these things it did at Southhampton last week, but the annual invitation tournament went smoothly on. There was only one upset-the defeat of Alfred Chapin by Cedric A. Major of Manhattan. Young George Lott of Chicago easily ended the hopes of upstart Major, and was himself defeated in the finals by Howard Kinsey, last year...
...strong force of Green Police (German) and some French civilians were the only onlookers. Suddenly a sharp command broke the mortuary silence. The scene abruptly became charged with the tension of things about to happen. There was a snap, much shuffling and slapping as rifles came to a general salute. Then silence. General Guilleaume, commanding the French troops in the Ruhr area, had appeared on the steps of his headquarters. After reviewing the assembled troops, the General turned toward the building out of which he had come, stood at attention with the troops as honors were paid to the Tricolor...
...play that sets out to be sophisticated and arrives only at tedium. Most of the lines are like firecrackers that end, not in a snap, but in a sultry hiss. Probably much of this inefficiency is due to the acting. Alma Tell is sorely put to it to play a fascinating and experienced woman of the world. Such a woman must have a certain cutting edge. Miss Tell provides a round performance. A. E. Anson manages much better as a lean and saturnine seducer. The others do not matter...
...essay, Steele could profitably deal with the young gentlemen who edit the Freshman Red Book at Harvard, and tell how they, in an effort to enliven their offering, filled what should have been a dignified history of the activities of a Harvard class, with page after page of miscellaneous snap shots, captioned by slang phrases and the nick names of class heroes...