Word: snatched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...factions, seeking to emulate the style of Hitler and Mussolini . . . have been wandering about that vast land [China] in futile excursions, carrying with them carnage, ruin and corruption, and calling it 'the Chinese incident.' Now, they stretch a grasping hand into the southern seas of China. They snatch Indo-China from the wretched Vichy French. They menace . . . Siam . . . Singapore . . . and the Philippine Islands...
...That snatch of a song had a college professor, a U.S. poet, numerous song collectors and Mississippi river folk scratching their heads last week. The lines had been sent to Bill Henry, columnist in the Los Angeles Times, by a friend who remembered hearing them many years ago in "Hell's Half Acre" in St. Louis. Henry printed the song, remarked its similarity to the current No. 1 sheet-music seller, the No. 2 ditty of the NBC and CBS networks, The Hut-Sut Song. This doubletalk, mock-Swedish "serenade" was written by Ted McMichael (of the singing "Merry...
...juggling schedules and repair lay-ups, airline operators have thus far been able to maintain all flights. But last week's snatch will put an end to that. American Airlines will suspend two daily trips on the Chicago-Buffalo-Albany-Boston run. Eastern, United and T.W.A. probably will make similar service cuts...
Composer Bennett's opener last fortnight was a "music opera" based upon a fine old U. S. song: The Man on the Flying Trapeze. Throughout the opera, the ballad tune dum-diddled along, festooned with Composer Bennett's shiniest orchestral and harmonic tricks. Best original snatch was sung by a clown: Which way does a young man start when a young man's heart has a well-known dart stuck away down low? Which way does a young girl turn when her arms both yearn and her lips both burn with a well-known glow? Ah, lackaday...
...bronze, amber, porcelain and terra cotta. One day Cabell admired one of Miss Glasgow's porcelain dogs so much that she gave it to him. Delighted, Author Cabell did not dare to put it down for fear that Miss Bennett, Novelist Glasgow's jealously vigilant secretary, would snatch it up and put it back in the collection. For guests like Novelist Cabell, Douglas Southall Freeman, Joseph Hergesheimer, Burton Rascoe, the Princess Troubetzkoy, hospitality at No. 1 is Southern and famous...