Word: snap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were as they told Santa Claus what they wanted for Christmas. I thought I'd just like to sit somewhere and take pictures of those faces." The following Christmas he took a leave of absence from the PI, rigged his camera inside a box so that he could snap the children unseen, sold candid shots of moppets on Santa's knee, at $1 a print. Last year he had to hire 15 helpers to handle the business, and the line-up of parents and children blocked traffic. In all, he took pictures of 25,000 children...
...right, fellows, snap out of it," wrote Coed Ivamae ("Tommie") Bendt in the Daily lowan. "Your prewar manners need a little brushing up. You're no longer the fair-haired boys the war has made you. Girls like to have doors opened for them, to be called respectable names and to be treated with what chivalry there is left in the world. You fellows are going to be hard up unless something is done about your repulsive selves in a hurry...
...Awareness. Canada felt a new and vibrant awareness of national identity. It showed itself in the eager popular acceptance of recent proposals for a distinctive Canadian citizenship and for a distinctive Canadian flag (TIME, Nov. 5; Nov. 19). It showed itself in the snap and swagger of veteran Canadian regiments marching up their Main Streets, and in the cheers to which they marched. The new spirit could be seen in the words of Prime Minister King a fortnight ago in the House of Commons: "We do expect and will expect that this country shall be given full recognition [in] matters...
...Goldstein, Fiorello LaGuardia had one of his most sparkling innings. "You know," he cackled, "we prepared the studio today to hear the Governor. We put tapes on the windows, we braced ourselves, we wore lead-glass goggles, ready for the atomic bomb. And all we heard was the snap of a wad of bubble...
...back to their prewar jobs: Field Operations Vice Chairman James A. Folger to his coffee company in San Francisco ; Operations Vice Chairman Harold Boeschenstein to the presidency of Owens-Corning Fiberglas Co. WPB has set up an employment agency to help place smaller fry, has found industry eager to snap them up. Cap Krug has been offered a job with Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., was rumored to be dickering with Atlas Corp., but he has not yet decided what he will do. "I'm as obsolete as a machine gun," said Cap Krug...