Word: snatch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whereupon someone swooned and wadragged out into the street. Miss Ford supplied the music by singing a snatch of "Cry Baby" from "Helen of Troy, New York...
...weather persistently spat drizzle and squall in the face of the proposed flight, holding the aviatrix and her copilot, George Haldeman, at Roosevelt field, L. I. Another aviatrix, Mrs. Francis Grayson, appeared on the scene, ready to snatch the honor of being first woman over by hopping from Old Orchard, Maine. Then, Miss Elder took off?weather or no weather...
...Hall as Christophus Sly in the Induction and later as Hortensio gives an excellent performance. His portrayal of the considerably inebriated Sly is amusing to a high degree. Lastly, a word must be said for the stage settings. Extremely simple, composed largely of curtains with here and there a snatch of landscape or a facade, they are undeniably beautiful and go no little way toward carrying out the spirit in which the entire performance is conceived
...procession moved along, bands blared the Egyptian National Anthem, and hundreds of Britons suddenly caught themselves humming the snatch of an old song...
Farmers put their hands in their pockets, edged to the curb and stared at the gathering excitement. Town men deserted their girl friends to snatch for the gutter beagles' wares, across which screamed the headlines...