Word: snap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rustle no doubt had an element of pleasurable anticipation in it. On the face of it this announcement appeared synonymous with the promise of a "snap exam". But when the result of a previous test, given on the same principle, was made public; grave doubts arose. It seemed as if the new saddle merely rubbed in another place and, possibly, as if the weight were better distributed...
Fourteen fitful fragments of their decline and fall are whisked by in staccato succession. Fourteen is too many times to snap the thread of theatrical illusion. Rather a restless rise of suspense is the result; it sags and roust be picked up again with visible effort at the beginning of each scene...
Rockne places his strategic dependence on a bewildering snap shift and persistent forward passing. He gives his men only one scrimmage a week. He looks like a bulldog, has a bulldog's vocabulary. He has lost only three games in six years...
...Trini snapped her fingers and stamped her feet in the second scene, but though she was the out-standing woman of the piece, she wasn't allowed either to snap or stamp again and therefore became a bit boring. Her Hawaiian dance was the next best thing. Lou Holtz accompanied a Jolsonized monologue with two strings of his take-down guitar, but most of his jokes were old and a bit off-color. It seems odd that a black face and spoken song make a presentable imitation of Jolson. Kitty Doner's feet were in excellent form, and Jack Pearl...
...author of the Communication, Mr. George Woodbridge. Undergraduates who have been at the University for a year or more, or even for a few months, form a habit of asking other undergraduates about the content of a course. Thence evolves the neo-professional informer who has every "snap" and "stiff" course at his finger-tips. For this reason the old student pays no heed to the meagre one or two lines of description which go with the majority of titles, since the pamphlet of courses has become little more than an "index of first lines...