Word: snap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...policies, explained how dear to the United States of Mexico are the United States of America, and the ceremony was over. A dapper young man in a neat black suit by the name of Daniel Flores left the stadium in disgust. Cameramen tripped over Congressmen in their efforts to snap President Ortiz Rubio publicly kissing ex-President Fortes Gil. Telegraphers in the press section clicked wordy comment on the stability of Mexico's new government, wired that at last a Mexican President had been inaugurated without bloodshed or attempted assassination...
...with his unique camera hidden beneath a napkin, Editor Bott's "Cyclops" can and does snap the Very Rev. William Ralph Inge, Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, in the act of sleeping through a speech at an Anglo-Finnish Society dinner. At the English-Speaking Union dinner, the Archbishop of Canterbury was snapshot six times, peering, grimacing, pinching his chin. Timothy A. Smiddy, High Commissioner of the Irish Free State, was seen smacking his lips over what was clearly not his first glass...
...argue that any one part of its curriculum is more militaristic than another. Marching is no more martial than a technical knowledge of naval gunnery, and plays at least as important a part in the making of an officer. Furthermore, Naval Science has unfortunately been branded as a snap course, offering an easy grade and, if the undergraduate so desires, a pleasant summer cruise. Compulsory drill every week will have the added advantage of discouraging the student seeking "gentlemen" grades with a minimum expenditure of energy...
...Snap, snap...
Shortly after noon, William Fox, coat collar turned up, snap-brim hat bent down over his face, arrived to give his verdict, to choose between the new trusteeship or receivership. So momentous did he consider the occasion he let his photo be taken, for the first time in 15 years. Looking straight ahead, he hurried into the building, entered Judge Coleman's private office. The attorneys waited outside, hoping that this day would see an end to one of the greatest tangles of recent financial history. An hour and a half later the Fox answer came. Judge Coleman, alone...