Word: snap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago's 13,000 schoolteachers, unpaid since last April, went back to work, wondered what they were to use for money. A waiting list of 2,000 was ready to snap at vacancies. The School Board owes the teachers $10,695,973, has no funds in sight. Taxes are due next month, but it is doubtful how much can be collected. It might be two years before the whole sum is raised. Destitute, desperate, many teachers have accepted "script." an I. O. U. from the city, cashable for much less than its face value. First day of registration, high...
...field upside down at a height of 200 ft., cut his motor and made a perfect landing after three loops and a barrel-roll. This was the best stunting of the day. Lieut. Williams ended the display by flying a triangular course upside down around the field, executing two snap rolls and a vertical figure eight...
...painted last summer by Greek Artist Pilides Costa. In an extemporaneous speech of thanks President Hoover declared: "It is difficult for me to express with my natural-I hope natural-modesty that it gives one pleasure to see oneself portrayed in a better fashion than the normal snap photograph. [This picture] may serve as an antidote to some of the current portraits under which I suffer. . . . "This club has stood steadfast. ... Its membership has stood steadfast. . . . After two years of fever and tumult in Washington, I assure you this is a gratifying occasion." That the club had not required...
Divorce is threatened, but it seems that the show must go on, and our heroine resigns herself to a crescendo of debauchery, involving no end of Hispanos, black tights, snap-shots of the Rivierra, and scenes which must be familiar to every movie goer. As Miss Chatterton lights her twenty-fourth cigarette, by actual count, in a pleasant rural district with a cow, a goat, a horse (property of Paramount Picture Corporation), in strides Paul Lukas, with his easel under one arm. Mutual infatuation. Complications, of a very simple nature...
...addition to the 950 pictures and brief biographies of the members of the class of 1934, there are to be several action photographs of class sports and activities. Well over 1000 photographs are included in the book, comprising views of the college, group pictures of teams and squads, snap-shots of incidents of the current year...