Word: snatchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...institutions. Frank is being brought up to date by Gilbert Patten, who created him under the name of Burt L. Standish. Now he will probably live in his rewritten version in Harkness Brick Court, exercise under the eagle eye of Bob Kiphuth in the new Whitney Memorial Gymnasium and snatch a toasted bun for breakfast at the new Ac Longley's, where Mrs. Graves is no longer cashier...
...break up the Socialists' meeting marched the young conscripts. They were promptly hissed not only by the Socialists but by numbers of bourgeois bystanders, who felt this show of force a disgrace to the home of the League of Nations. Somebody started throwing pepper. City toughs tried to snatch rifles from the young soldiers' hands. Up on the double came a second company with a Lewis gun. Without any warning, the machine gunners opened fire, shooting not over the heads of the crowd but into the pavement...
Professor Maniu when he was last Premier acquiesced to the return of Carol from exile, permitted him to snatch the crown off the head of Carol's son, Boy King Mihai (TIME. June 16, 1930). Next thing Premier Maniu knew he was ousted. The King and his favorites were spending right & left, bankrupting Rumania. In silence and in dignity Professor Maniu retired to his law books among the peasants of Transylvania. Last week he took his time about obeying the Royal "command" to come to Bucharest and save for Rumania once more...
Vincent Petrullo and Eldridge Reeves Fenimore Johnson, son of the founder of Victor Talking Machine Co., were in the airplane. They saw the amazing red men below snatch their spears and bows & arrows, and form into fighting squads of six. The Yawalapiti were going to battle the huge creature circling down upon them. The women ran into the jungle, ripping off their uluri (genital charms) as sacrifice to the demon. But the village site was too small for the plane to land. Anthropologist Petrullo & Victrola-Hein Johnson dropped a sack full of good-will offerings upon the village, flew back...
...snatch your diploma," read an announcement last week to the graduating class at Colgate University. "Be calm. Take your diploma in the right hand. Tip your cap with your left hand. Don't wave it, but just...