Word: snap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That night 2,500 citizens of Rochester, which the late George Eastman helped make one of the most civilized communities in the land, gathered around Captain Schultz's ring for the evening performance. The horse & lion act ended. This time "Baby" outsmarted Captain Schultz. One snap and twist of the lion's jaws and the horse crumpled with a raw, red hole gaping in its throat...
Public men in public places frequently make unfortunate remarks. Author Kent likes to snap these up, ring the changes. Once General Johnson permitted himself to turn from excoriating his critics and point with pride to those "whose eyes have seen the glory." And Professor Tugwell rhapsodically prophesied a time when "every hill will be green and all the rivers blue." Old-Fashioned Democrat Kent is waiting for the muddy Missouri to change color...
...waistline, dropping the skirt. "Foundation garments" became a practical necessity. The corset-makers frankly admitted for the first time that women had not one bust but two breasts. Even then corsets were relatively clumsy affairs with elastic threads woven to stretch only in one direction. The elastic lost its snap if a corset lay on a store shelf for any length of time. Perspiration and a few washings had the same effect...
Camel cigarets were quick to snap up a laboratory observation and advertise: ''Smoke a Camel and notice how soon you feel your natural energy snap back'' (TIME, July 2). Last March, if advertising scouts had been on the job at the New York Academy of Medicine, or last week if they had read the Journal of the American Medical Association, they could have evolved a new cigaret-selling slogan: ''Smoke a cigaret and-keep your fingers cool. . . . Cool hands mean a warm heart...
Such was Berlin's state of nerves that whispers had the President already dead. Adolf Hitler took along his personal cameraman to snap pictures which would convince the Fatherland's last doubting Otto...