Word: sniped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the Bureau of Standards, which made the observations by sending employes to snipe stubs and butts on sidewalks and in office buildings, recommended fireproofing methods. The procedure is to soak matches in non-inflammable waterglass to within the useful half-inch of the head. Cigarets should have a cork tip one inch long and lined with waterglass. Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts inspired the investigation...
Eighty or thereabouts years ago when I was a Yale undergraduate (that was before the days of Harkness, when Chapel Street was but a winding lane, and gin was in its infancy (I dearly loved a good snipe hunt. With a small group of friends (the Heffeifinger boys, and, now and then, Fannie Ward) I would while away the long Connecticut afternoons, ever intent on the elusive snipe. Garbed in sundry clothing and an umbrella slickers were then a practically unknown territory, we would roam through the bills, little dreaming what the morrow held in store. Which reminds me (just...
Nicaraguans know better than to fire at 6,000 U. S. marines who patrol, police and "neutralize" their country; but last week some of the marines began to fly about Nicaragua in airplanes, and Nicaraguans embraced enthusiastically the opportunity to snipe undetected at these planes from cover...
...codes are dying and time trembles for a birth. Thus, the cedar forests remain but in places they are being leveled to pay gambling debts. Barons and landlords still shoot capercailzies at dawn and snipe at sunset, or shoot one another in grave "affairs of honor." Yet here is a man, a little crazed perhaps, who finds dueling a pitiable farce and who would rather watch the love-antics of moorfowl at sunrise than slaughter them. In the white castles and proud manors, dames still drill their men-servants, still preserve an ancient ritual for meals and marriage, dancing...
...immediate local interest, the editorial wherein Pegasus reveals himself shaking his intelligent head doubtfully in meditation upon the probable results of an adoption of the rumored proposal to shorten the terms of lectures in the college year. The rest of the editorial columns are filled by the engaging Leander Snipe, who writes from upper New York State to recount the unfortunate falling out between those pillars of the Advocate's staff in other years, W. D. Edmonds and Essenz von Biershaum. Leanaer's letter has in it more life and warmth than any of the fiction to be found elsewhere...