Word: snatchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dust had grimed the dregs at the foot of the bottle, the fire was embers, Dawn reached rosy fingers to snatch back reality. The Vagabond shook himself, gazed at his empty lair, stretched in preparation for a new day. At nine o'clock he will saunter spryly into Sever 22 to hear Mr. Curtiss discourse on "Motion in Polar Coordinates," for Roger Bacon, first of the moderns, said "Mathematics prepares the mind and elevates it to a sure knowledge of all things," for in numbers lies the only Truth...
...Nerofilm). A little German girl dawdling home from school is spoken to by a pudgy, rubber-faced young man; he admires the ball she is bouncing and, whistling a snatch from Peer Gynt in a strange, convulsive way, buys her a funny balloon. Presently you see the ball rolling out of a clump of bushes, the balloon, caught in telegraph wires, bobbing crazily in the wind...
...fourth chapter, he deserts them and goes on to tell of Trotsky who "might almost have been one of those Society of Jesus guys"; and Hitler ("Funny name too! . . .ha, ha, ha!"); as well as good "old Mussolini" snatch babies, "youthies," "giovanni." the outcome is that Trotsky has "the big hips of a buxom nanny and the frowning mask of an emotional Polish pianist," an immense advantage over Mussolini and Hitler ("ha, ha, ha again") who can only shout the magic word "Giovenezza...
After vainly striving to snatch the lime-light away from Prince Romanoff, L. Donovan Bisbee ocC., well-known undergraduate hoax and prolific correspondent, committed suicide, in his study in Leverett House yesterday morning. It is generally rumored that the mid-year exams were too much for his neurotic perpetrators. With a sigh of regret, the more eligible society matrons in Boston and vicinity will remove Bisbee's name from their door lists, for though he never appeared, he was much in demand...
...England where tuberculosis among young women is also prevalent, two men, Drs. Ronald Walshaw & Gordon Smith, county tuberculosis officers for Worcestershire, blame cinemas and dance halls. Girls, they find, rush home from office, store or factory, snatch a hasty, insufficient meal, prance out to entertainment...