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Congressman Eddie Crump, "the Red Snapper of Tennessee." who "rode into town at the age of 18 on a bull calf." and remained to become the city's benevolent despot, absolutely controls all city and county offices. Negro Boss is big Bob Church, Oberlin and Harvard-educated with a college-graduate daughter now studying abroad. Church owns white-folks' houses as well as Beale Street property, and outside his offices at No. 392 Beale St. the Negroes staged their own carnival, "The Opening of the Gates of Ham." In and out of such resorts as the "Swreet Mamma...
...styles in short stories are changing. Yesterday's vogue, "the story with the snapper at the end," says sharp-eyed Authoress Ferber, seems "strangely old-fashioned and unconvincing now." New styles call for front drive, less road clearance, a sharper-tilted wheel. These eight stories will all do 20 mi. to a gallon; two of them will go 75 at a pinch. Some of the upholstery: A day in the frantically hard-working life of a successful actress, far removed from the "glamour" her public imagines her surrounded with. Efficient Fraulein's day off from her opulent Parkavian...
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With smaller resources than his father, Adrian Iselin has the reputation among yachtsmen of being equally adroit, if a shade less bold. He has owned Victory sloops, six-and eight-metre boats and another star, made of mahogany, the Snapper which he sold when light cedar hulls were coming into fashion. With his Ace, built in 1924, he won the International Championship in 1925, the Bacardi Cup in 1927, innumerable minor trophies which, in his house at East Williston (L. I.) make a respectable glitter beside the huge silvery bonfire of the cups he inherited when his father died...
...suggest that we employ, at least occasionally, the alternative patronymic of 'Nassau!" as a snapper to the body of our tribal war-cry. It is inferior in phonetic value to both "Harvard!" and "Yale!" But it is infinitely superior to the pinched-up and vocally inexpressive "Princeton!" I am inclined to think that the best tonal effect will be secured by avoiding the repetition of the word (Nassau), particularly if the tempo be a rapid one. Use a single "Nassau" at the end of the cheer, thus: "Nassau!" Note that the explosive accent is on the final syllable, the vocalization...