Word: snared
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...famed musicians. Conductor Walter Damrosch heard her play last week, said it was "like raindrops in sunshine." Com-poser-Critic Deems Taylor said that he did not see why "a good ukulele player, such as Miss Breen, shouldn't be admitted to the musicians' union. Triangle players, snare drummers and expert sand block rubbers carry union cards...
...girls wait down by the free port for the sailors to go uptown for shore leave, and they beg cigarets, sugar, meat, bread, shoes, anything except money, from the lads they snare. They don't want rubles. They are no good to them since they can't buy anything with them, and they don't dare fool around with valuta, as the G. P. U. is very suspicious over any Russian possessing foreign money...
...Baldwin dared not offer his solution for unemployment (high tariffs) last week because he needed to snare as many Liberal (free trade) votes as possible for his motion censuring the Laborites...
These facts did not satisfy Senator Robinson. He tried to snare the Democratic chairman with insinuating questions. Democratic Senators Caraway and Walsh on the Committee stormily protested such crude and obvious political maneuvering. Spectators mocked with loud laughter. Senator Robinson asked Mr. Raskob if he did not take his Democratic chairmanship to help fight Prohibition. Cried Senator Walsh: "Don't answer that question! Don't answer it!" Senator Robinson tried to build up an "important point" by revealing the anti-Raskobism of North Carolina's Josephus Daniels, oldtime Democrat, onetime Secretary of the Navy. When Senator Robinson was forced...
...reading assignments are lengthy, the quizzes frequent, and the standards high enough to exclude the Man-without-a-Purpose. It is this person's conviction that at some past day a misguided confidential reviewer shouted from the house-tops that here was the course for the gentleman to snare his "C" in, and that since then the gods in the machine have been leaning backwards in their efforts to prove it not so. At any rate, it can now be said, with the movie critics that this is not for the kiddies. If you want to find out about...