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Word: snatched (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...terrible!" cried he. "Work, work, work! And even then there are hundreds of visitors I am unable to see. I only sleep three or four hours a night! I have hardly time to snatch a meal at off hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: First Week | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

...have time to snatch his weapon before they had seized and beaten him into sub-mission," is TIME's description of the capture. "His gun, a .32 automatic, was found in his coat in another room," Father-in-Law Porter said for the Star. He was captured at his father-in-law's house. "One of the detectives threw a flashlight on Burke as he reclined in bed ... he was awakened and (we) took him without any trouble," continued Mr. Hoover's interview...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 27, 1931 | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

...Snatch!?moral Miss Edith Picton-Tubervill tried to grab a green bookful of Irish Sweepstake tickets away from jovial John Beckett in the House of Commons? but Jovial John held on tight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Apr. 27, 1931 | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

...farmhouse near Milan, Mo. lay a burly middle-aged man with a scarred lip, asleep. Near his pillow lay a loaded pistol. But he did not wake up when four stealthy-figures entered the bedroom and "covered" him with a submachine gun, did not have time to snatch his weapon before they had seized and beaten him into submission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Worst Man | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

America's Sweetheart is notable if only for its refreshing little plot, which consistently refuses to run the usual course of musicomedies. The standard Act I finale finds the Boy and the Girl bitterly disappointed through some unfortunate misunderstanding, whereupon one or the other inevitably sings a snatch of the show's torch song and wanders hopelessly away. In America's Sweetheart, however, when Jack Whiting sees that his girl friend (Harriette Lake) is about to throw him over for a big cinemagnate, he breaks into a sullen soft-shoe dance with Gus Shy, the comic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 23, 1931 | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

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