Word: snatches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stuffy museum. One night he barges drunkenly into the museum's chaste lobby with a boozy breath and every indication of an intent to wreck the joint. Has he lost his mind? More likely, he is being framed by the mysterious gang of forgers who hope to snatch the museum's loan collection of masterpieces...
Watch Those Lights! Many of filmdom's best people look down their snobbish noses at the Warners. The brothers are widely regarded as inartistic penny-pinchers. Their detractors claim that the Warners never buy a story if they can remake an old one or snatch a plot out of the newspapers. They discourage fussy, expensive retakes. They frown on temperament in anyone but themselves. As President Harry once said: "Listen, a picture, all it is is an expensive dream. Well, it's just as easy to dream...
Calling today a "time of stupidity," he declared that the victor nations are "bewildered and discouraged. Each nation suspects its neighbor, and each endeavors to snatch everything it can from its neighbors in order to get better positions for the next world...
That $22.50 allowed by the G.I. Bill for books sounds like a signal for a shopping spree, but after two weeks of combing the Square, students have taken to beating their neighbors to Widener in the morning to snatch one of the two copies of their assigned books off the reserved shelf. The shortage, and in some cases, non-existence of required college texts, is not the fault of any one particular group, and can be attributed in large part to rapid demobilization, causing an unexpectedly high enrollment during the spring and summer terms. In spite of the fact that...
...dress manufacturers groaned about shortages of materials and profits, Rosenfeld has grown into one of the nation's biggest dressmakers. Last year's gross: $8,000,000 without benefit of his new cosmetics business. His dresses, simply tailored and well-cut, look expensive. But what makes women snatch them from the racks are the prices...