Word: snatcher
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...alighted next day on a watery waste near Hinghwa, east of the Grand Canal and 70 miles from Nanking. With famished yells, Chinese in sampans and in tubs paddled for the plane, snatched at boxes of medical supplies which the two doctors proceeded to unload. "Ah, food!" cried a snatcher. Seizing some boxes of absorbent gauze he ripped one open, tried to eat the white stringy stuff, raged to find it not food. Other Chinese snatched, bit, fell to reviling the two doctors, one a Chinese. Said Colonel Lindbergh afterward: "It was one of the most heartrending, yet terrifying scenes...
...cross between poet, pirate and posturer is Gabriele d'Annunzio, snatcher of Fiume for Italy, first in the romantic hearts of millions of his countrymen. Last week, having penned such a last will and testament as only he could write, he could not resist the temptation to let Italians read it now. After briefly, dramatically bequeathing The Place of Victory (his estate on Lake Garda) to the nation, the will rambles...
Hours later Mace-snatcher Beckett rose to put (ask) a question, as he had every right to do, but subsided blushing when the House with one voice roared: "Sit down...
Impenitent Beckett. One policeman was sufficient to escort Gandhite Brockway and Mace-Snatcher Beckett last week "from the Parliamentary precincts." Suspended, they might not resume their seats until this week. It was even said that at the next election the Labor Party will' refuse to let Mr. Beckett run again as one of their candidates, so furious were mem bers of that party at his unseemly con duct...
...paper just before the official moment of release, who never has the ink at hand, or who is unprepared for a request of second bluebooks during a three hour examination, that sicklies over with the pale cast of inefficiency all the admirably handled examinations that preceded him. The bluebook snatcher is armed with an indisputable destiny, perhaps, but there is no reason why, in the distribution of examination papers, meticulous thumb-counting should take the place of quick availability. October, the month of November hour examinations, is here. It is to be hoped that the rooms of examination will...