Word: snatches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fire ate up Ely Court, fashionable school for finishing young ladies, at Greenwich, Conn. Red tongues danced upon a rooftree and gobbled earthward far faster than firemen could pump water from a nearby lake. Fleeing with such midnight garments and belongings as they could snatch up, the owners and principals, Miss Elizabeth Ely and her sister, Mrs. Sara (sic) Parsons, could only give thanks that none but themselves, the housekeeper and some servants were in the long, tall building. The 100 or so young ladies were safely home for holidays. It was just 40 years since the Misses...
...young lady who is reluctant to surrender herself on ten minutes' acquaintance. Such an astonishing revelation of honor in the female sex transforms Don Juan. In fact, the lover of hundreds decides to marry. Before he can carry off his bride-to-be, however, the irresistible Juan must snatch her from the clutches of the notorious Borgias. In doing so, Actor Barrymore slashes and dashes through several reels that will possibly cause Douglas Fairbanks to bite his finger nails. With all due respect to the superb acting of Mr. Barrymore, no sane adult can be expected to accept such...
...More Women. The audience could only mutter; "There are no such animals," and take its pleasure in Actor Charles Bickford's tacit agreement. He is supposed to be a rufous Wyoming body-snatcher who has never missed his snatch, even including a warm Manhattan divorcee who strolls into Cody dressed for Newport. Something about her is supposed to purify his ardor; he has to return from her bedroom saying he "wouldn't do such." The bedroom is in a dude lodge belonging to two embittered Manhattan males with a shingle over their door, "Damn the Women...
...WJAZ could snatch without restraint at any wave length it pleased, other stations could do the same. Aerial chaos would result. So radio listeners with $500,000,000 to $600,000,000 invested in receiving sets waited for a court decision. More anxiously waited the radio manufacturers and broadcasters, who realized keenly that broadcasting must be constant over wave lengths and time...
...enough triumph. It meant exactly nothing as an indication of how the Chamber would vote the next day or the next week. It was one more step along the political tight-rope without falling. M. Briand relaxed over the weekend, snored thankfully during such leisure moments as he could snatch...