Word: snatching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seemed last week as if British Ambassador to China Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen, a wispy-looking sahib whose friends call him "Snatch," would have completely recovered from the machine-gunning he received last month before the British Government could manage to pry a reply as to this outrage from the Japanese Government...
...Snatch" last week was sitting up in bed at Shanghai, surrounded by flowers, cablegrams and congratulatory letters. His doctors permitted him to walk about his room and receive visitors. A warship waited to take Sir Hughe to a swank resort in The Netherlands East Indies for final convalescence-and still the Japanese Government, far from having made the "fullest redress" demanded by the British Government, had not yet officially replied to London's charge that it was a Japanese war plane which suddenly swooped down on the Ambassador's car and shot "Snatch...
...Japanese plane zoomed down to within 20 yards of the first car, riddled it with machine-gun fire. The driver. Colonel W. A. Lovat-Fraser, British Military Attaché, stopped. Slumped in the back seat, with blood gushing from his middle was 51-year-old, baldish Sir Hughe Montgomery ("Snatch") Knatchbull-Hugesson, Britain's Ambassador to China, one of her smartest & youngest diplomats. His back was broken; he had been hit in the liver. So ended his errand: to visit Japanese Ambassador Shigeru Kawagoe at Shanghai to present one of those peace-plans that the British Government is tireless...
...island, he told cheering Sicilians that "the lush old days of the Roman Emperor Augustus" were the only fitting comparison with the Fascist regime. To the crowd jam-packing the public square of Syracuse he shouted that Italy was "ready for any struggle, prepared for any sacrifice & determined to snatch victory" at any cost. Then, remembering the recent improvement in Anglo-Italian relations, he stood on the prow of a dummy destroyer erected in Messina's flag-strung streets, minimized the importance of the war games with a wish to "dispel untimely & absurd alarms darkening the horizon, because...
...last week in the Manhattan offices of Adman Byron G. Moon was an ingenious scheme to end fabric design piracy. No matter how novel the design, fabrics cannot be successfully patented. Yet songs can be copyrighted. Ingenious Mr. Moon's idea is to use the title or a snatch of the lyric of a copyrighted song to designate print designs, thus extending to dress materials Tin Pan Alley's copyright protection. Adman Moon sees no reason why Night and Day should not identify a black & white print, and April in Paris a design of horse-chestnut blossoms, just...