Word: snyder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...month; the cue is for lightning flashes, thunder spurts, and a darkened stage. Today finds sable felines at a premium, unbreakable mirrors going up, and ladders being trusted only when in a horizontal position. And the headline writers clap hands in glee as they realize that Mrs. Snyder's demise will coincide with the most ominous of days...
...their daily stint, with interpolations of plot and jargon which the newspapers know but would not dare print. Celebrity handles the prizefight "racket" with an intimacy that may annoy Fisticuffers Dempsey and Tunney. Of their characters, careers and managers, the Celebrity, "Barry Regan," and his impressario, " 'Circus' Snyder," are licensed composites. Personal mannerisms alone are spared. As for the women the play involves, and the shady proposition of the big promoter, theatregoers can only conjecture how libelous Reporter-Playwright Willard Keefe has been in his notably entertaining effort to put the headlines behind the footlights...
...Creel, Wood v. Witenagemot--Snyder, Weinstein
...saint's bones or the spices from a mummy. And one wonders if the burners of witches were more concerned with the problems of demonology, than the troubled Governor of New York will be with those of psychology in considering during the next week the case of Ruth Snyder, sentenced to burn by the consumption of amperes rather than fagots...
...Scripps-Howard papers claimed to have won additional readers through their handling of the Snyder-Gray murder, and the Hearst papers by their treatment of the Peaches Browning case. Nine-tenths of the putrid detail and the revolting accounts of the Snyder-Gray murder and the overtures of the amorous Browning ought never to have been put in public print...