Word: snatches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anxiety, hope, fear, ferocity and desperate determination. Two to a team, they relieved one another periodically. There was Reggie McNamara, staunch veteran of uncountable races, pedaling warily, knowing that the road was a long one. Experienced Eddie Madden and Bobby Walthour, too. let the young up-and-comers snatch the first kudos. There were Dutchmen, Frenchmen, Italians, Poles, Irishmen and Jews, with names like Lacquehay, Georgetti, Goosens, Stockelynch, Keller, Kockler, Golle, Meithe, Bello, Wambst...
...clock in the morning with 15 minutes off for dinner at midnight. For them the average wage is from $12 to $17 a week, though they do the same work as the men. After they return from the mills they must do housework and try to snatch some rest during the day while caring for their youngest children under school age. They work up to the last months of pregnancy and reenter the mills shortly after childbirth. The effects of this life are stamped upon them indelibly. Their backs are bent from the very nature of the work; their faces...
Amid pandemonium, the Fascists threw their own hats, and all the hats they could snatch, into the air. Mistaking a streetcar employe with a red "danger" flag for a Communist, they drubbed him soundly. Premier Poullet "turned pale," escaped discreetly through the back door of the Museum, leaving Crown Prince Leopold to receive the Fascists' cheers...
...whiz," the "shark," the man who can, with little visible effort, rip and rend the more indigestible portions of the curriculum into tender shreds; the man who singles out tough courses for the sheer delight of picking high marks out of them; the man, the exceptional man, who would snatch at an honors course if only his university offered...
...Anderson borrowed the characteristics of Mr. Tully's dusty nomads and one of his incidents to make a narrative. It is the story of a child of bitter misfortune, a girl seduced by her stepfather and driven by circumstances into a disorderly house. When she had earned a snatch of leisure and money for the trip, she paid a visit to the family, leaving the house unceremoniously, and its owner shattered with lead pistol-slugs...