Word: snatchings
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...procession moved along, bands blared the Egyptian National Anthem, and hundreds of Britons suddenly caught themselves humming the snatch of an old song...
Farmers put their hands in their pockets, edged to the curb and stared at the gathering excitement. Town men deserted their girl friends to snatch for the gutter beagles' wares, across which screamed the headlines...
...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...