Word: snatchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Have you ever seen an ostrich?' she asked me. 'Many women who see an ostrich long to snatch the feathers from its tail. Some do. some don't. I did!' she dimpled into a smile...
...their investigation of the pipsqueak U. S. munitions business, popped out proposals for mandatory, two-sided embargoes on arms, loans, credits. Panting from White House to Capitol, Secretary of State Hull persuaded President Roosevelt to take a firm stand for discretionary legislation, persuaded the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to snatch back its partial approval of the drastic Nye-Clark proposals. Thereafter State Department experts and Ambassador-at-Large Norman Davis were left to putter in peace with their own ideas of neutrality bylaw...
Thus, Harold Hales proposed last week to go right ahead with his fine presentation ceremony to the Rex at Genoa next month. The Rex will keep the Hales Trophy for three months. Then Hales will snatch it back, present it again in another fine ceremony to the Normandie...
Another who had been sleepless was a corpulent, 59-year-old police reporter named John H. Dreher of the Seattle Times, one of a flock of 75 newshawks which alighted at Tacoma to cover the Northwest's biggest snatch. Oldster Dreher justified his 40 years in the business with an oldtime scoop. Somehow he got word of Farmer Bonifas' early morning call to the Tacoma police. "On one of those hunches that come like a royal flush," wrote Reporter Dreher afterward, "I started out in a taxicab to meet the farmer's automobile." Meet...
...Gospel or a minister of a church comes down into the political arena and goes out with his radio incendiarism to stir up the fountains of hate in a distressed land amongst a suffering people, I take it nothing amiss and I make no apologies, but I will snatch the halo from his brow and throw it into the nearest spittoon, and then throw the spittoon into the gutter...