Word: snap
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Taming of the Shrew" was produced last week for the first time by this company and showed promise of future brilliancy. The company played it with a snap and dash slightly dimmed by an apparent uneasiness about the lines. Mr. Hampden's Petruchio was pleasing but violent...
...Butler exaggerates the peril. It is fairly common experience that the college student or the schoolboy, if given free rein, will not go in too heavily for the subjects that teach one how to make a living. Their inclination is pretty strong for the snap courses that teach us how to live. New York Evening Post...
...Carson and Willard in "Something Different" have certainly chosen a good idea for they prove themselves right when they say it is something different that the public likes. One of the cleverest acts of the evening is that by Barns and Frabito in "Shoo's" in which plenty of snap and variety is used in their conversation and action, and is supplemented by remarkable and equally skillful mandolin playing. The Norris Twins and Harold West put on a beautiful series of dances which are set off by fine costumes and pleasing scenery...
...results of the scrimmage were perfectly satisfactory to the coaches. Team "B" showed so much snap, and carried their plays through so perfectly that it is evident that if any of these men are put in the game Saturday, their substitution will not materially weaken the team. At any event, they will go into the contest with a thorough knowledge of the plays and a fighting spirit that will be as good as that of team...
Then followed a dummy scrimmage with the second team. Whether the crispness of the weather, or the fact that the Princeton game is only a few days off was responsible for it, the whole team ran through their formations with a preciseness and snap which has not been so evident all season. Time after time, the second team man was stopped in his tracks, time after time the famous Princeton formations were theoretically completely blocked or snowed under. If the eleven shows the knowledge of the Tiger plays that it showed today, and if these plays are not supplemented...