Word: snap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...altar which he serves Lobbyist Taylor has the best possible priestly attributes. In private life he loves his little luxuries (lobster Newburg, pastries, pies & cakes), but he never drinks a drop. His vestments are spats, a snap-brim hat, a walking stick. His aspect is impressive, a fine broad forehead, a jutting chin, sharp eyes, hair steely grey. His manner is positive bravado, his voice stentorian, his cigars black. His apostolic jewels are a magnificent row of decorations: from the U. S. a Silver Star (citation in orders); from France, the bronze Medal of Verdun and the cross...
...curtain time drew near photographers mounted the stage to snap the packed, hand-picked audience. Some went backstage to get Einstein pictures. Outside six policemen held back a surging crowd of curious. The curtain went up on a stage empty but for a blackboard covered with equations chalked in different colors. Applause began. In the midst of it Dr. Einstein ambled from the wings, his halo of white hair glowing in the dim light...
...Congress or the French Chamber of Deputies, the room is not constructed with aisles so arranged that any member may leave his seat, ascend the tribune and manifest himself. Instead, Moscow Soviet Delegates sit in pews. Their pew seats have arms which fold up to admit them, then snap down into place. They are not locked in, but might as well be. For an individual Delegate like Perfect Gentleman Robert Robinson to manifest himself in opposition is all but impossible. In practice the Moscow Soviet always votes unanimously as No. 1 Delegate Joseph Stalin indicates...
Celebrities thus recorded include: Photographer Cecil Beaton in a cocked hat at the feet of a plaster Venus; Walter P. Chrysler Jr. bending over a friend's shoulder; Crooner Lanny Ross about to eat a cheese snap; Dancer Clifton Webb holding the arm of Serge Lifar; Polo Player Laddie Sanford on a raft with his wife. Actress Mary Duncan; Mrs. Willie K. Vanderbilt honoring LaFayette; Douglas Fairbanks on a nightclub couch; Lawrence Tibbett in a theatre lobby; Doris Duke drinking champagne; Prince Chlodwig Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst drinking champagne; Cartoonist Tony Sarg drinking whiskey; Max Baer putting cold cream...
...satisfactory as any. Many there are who feel it wise to allow a student four courses and tell him he may take any four he chooses without regard to subjects at all. This does not seem acceptable with the present curriculum. The tendency might well be to take four snap courses which would not give one a semblance of what is optimistically called a rounded education. It seems advisable to require a certain amount of distribution and as such is the case, one plausible solution is to offer as these requirements (1) a course either in the history of scientific...