Word: snatching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hardly justifies the material. It is only fair to add, however, that one of the twins died. In "Hero-Worship", Mr. Coolidge loosely strings together four anecdotes, told in a straightforward manner that redeems them from what might become fatuity in less steady hands. This is followed by a snatch of song from the lips of Mr. H. M. Parker, Junior, which gives your reviewer an opportunity to sit back for a moment and indulge in stroking his beard and reminiscence...
...President's attorneys professed ignorance) it at least implied that the Herr President resembles a bull, an allegedly libelous implication. As the suit got under way last week, the Berlin police destroyed on their own responsibility every copy of the offending issue of Rote Fahne that they could snatch...
Because the Secretary of State for India is an arbiter of old port, new cravats and suave cigars, there is a snatch of recitative pretended to have issued from his lips in a fume of dilatory tobacco smoke...
Meanwhile, Lawyer William Gibbs McAdoo, Secretary of tha Treasury under Wilson (1913-18), began not only to earn money but also to snatch for the mantle hia father-in-law had dropped. He missed it, rent the Democratic party. That other William, Bryan the Great Commoner, died in Dayton, Tenn., still denying his descent from long-tailed ancestors; with him vanished a sonorous power, which, for nearly 30 years had sometimes led and had always disturbed the Democratic party...
Hollis--The Cradle Snatchers--8.25 o'clock. As snatch as snatch can as can be, Blanche Ring leads the snatching...