Word: snap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week his doctors forbade the King to return to flu-racked London, kept him at Sandringham where a cold snap froze an ornamental pond. While Queen Mary sat placidly on a little bench. His Majesty put on skates, and to the plaudits of his Household and guests scorned his 67 years by cutting slow figure 8's, practicing his inner and outer edge...
...Contrary to snap judgment all the people-red, white, black & yellow-who lived & died from 1492 until 1880 in what is now the U. S. did not equal the 123 millions who now inhabit...
...pile of fresh meat, tied in neat little rolls, lying just inside their fence one morning last week. But the 15 pure-bred dachshunds which she let out for an airing soon scented it. Scurrying on their stubby, crooked legs, they tumbled and fought in their eagerness to snap up the juicy morsels...
...Gawd, this job is no snap, believe it or not," grunted Theodore Hilton, domestic at a well-known country club in a recent interview with a CRIMSON reporter. Mr. Hilton was still puffing from his exertions in preventing three merry youths at the dance from pouring punch down the bass horn. They're good, spirited lads I used to get that way myself once," he murmured sadly. "These winter dances are hard work for as waiters: we sure earn our pay. For instance, inside of ten minutes tonight I had to run down cellar and turn off a carbon dioxide...
...nutmeg.*. . . The particular food product that should be stressed is hot milk in cold weather. ... It helps build up protection against colds. . . . "Just before retiring is a good time for hot milk. You take a glass of hot milk, sip slowly, then make one last readjustment of the pillows, snap out the light, pull the coverlets around your shoulders, give a little sigh, the sigh isn't absolutely necessary but usually is done, and the chances are greatly in favor of a good night's slumber descending before you have time to pick up again the count...