Word: snap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dorothy could not abide hearing the composer praised at Oscar's expense. When people at parties referred to "Jerome Kern's Ol' Man River," she would snap: "Oscar Hammerstein wrote Ol' Man River...
Paprika & Snap. Ever since a new subway brought the big crowds to Coney Island in 1920, Nathan's has been a moneymaker; last year it grossed more than $3,000,000. Under prodding from his two sons, Nathan has reluctantly expanded into a Long Island restaurant and a catering service. He has also diversified his fare, now sells 4,500 lbs. of shrimp and 1,400 lbs. of frogs' legs each summer weekend. Although businessmen often offer to back him in a nationwide chain, Nathan always refuses. "I won't have my, name over the door...
...every summer day to taste each batch of raw hot dogs. His formula: garlic, paprika and top-grade steer meat so lean that it will not pop the hot dog open when it is grilled - all encased in sheep membrane to give the dog just the right snap when bitten. When an upstate member of the New York state senate once derided a bill as being "as old and wrinkled as a warmed-over Coney Island hot dog," Nathan's indignantly fired off a batch of hot dogs to the state capital. The offending senator ate one and asked...
...Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (third son of Johann Sebastian) described the pitfalls of harpsichord playing, adding that a good harpsichord performer must have "das Schnellen" (the snap), achieved by imitating with one's fingers the leg action of a chicken scratching the ground. Despite such difficulties (experts figure that not one harpsichord player in a hundred had his Schnellen properly under control), the U.S. is in the grip of a major harpsichord boom, fostered by such players as Ralph Kirkpatrick, Sylvia Marlowe, Fernando Valenti and the late great Wanda Landowska...
Besides keeping time by the foot, Seeger's audience was encouraged to snap a none-too-collective finger and sing a rich array of lyrics invoking unknown gods. The spectacle is reminiscent of a certain type of musical therapy now in vogue at various institutions across the country...