Word: snappers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...success stories for which Satevepost became famous. When he had trouble getting the material he wanted, Editor Lorimer wrote it himself, among his best efforts being the shrewd and practical Letters of a Self-Made Merchant to His Son. Contemptuous of things highbrow, Editor Lorimer developed the current commercial, snapper-ending short-story technique. By 1908 Editor Lorimer's magazine had passed 1,000,000 circulation. In the peak of 1929 prosperity Satevepost bounded over 3,000,000, sold $50,000,000 in advertising...
...guards are an even lot with as yet no outstanding men, but Dave Scull, Robert Sears, and Howie Johnson will bear watching. Jim Fearon, one-time St. Mark's center, ranks among the best of the pivot men, but is pressed by Danny Cheever, former ball-snapper for Milton Academy and Dave Cogswell from Beverly High...
Last week he filed a crisp account of mating between humans and apes on a Soviet experimental farm, adding as a snapper: "The purpose seems to be to improve the next generation of the Soviet population." That done, Jan Otmar Berson dropped in on one of the concluding sessions of the Communist Congress for promoting the null Revolution of the World Proletariat. The Comintern's final act was to revive the post of Secretary General last held in 1926 by tousle-haired Grigory Zinoviev, "Bomb Boy of Bolshevism," whose career abruptly ended when Joseph Stalin decided to soft-pedal...
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...