Word: automatonism
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...rice, they're very nice" went. The two boys explained that they had heard the words and music either in a New York or Philadelphia night club where a colored band was playing. . . . We made a recording of the words and music to that point in a Broadway automaton shop for which we paid 25?. Nothing further was done about the song until last November when the Andrews Sisters, whom I manage . . . were in Philadelphia playing a theatre engagement. . . . The Andrews, Kent, Brandow, Vic Shoen (their arranger) and myself fooled around with the song. In "foo to Nagasaki," Pattie...
...ship of the royal navy at a formal review. Queen Elizabeth, wearing smoked glasses, stood with her elder daughter on the bridge of the Victoria & Albert, near but not beside King George who stood out alone, clearly visible to every ship in the line, saluting like an automaton for two full hours. Near Princess Elizabeth, doing his best to answer her questions, was King George's cousin and personal naval A.D.C., Commander Lord Louis Mountbatten. The Queen's dark glasses were unnecessary. It was not raining but visibility was so poor that only two or three ships...
...Cleveland golf course, a stoop-shouldered man of 60, his bald head shining like a knob of burnished marble, smacked drive after drive off a tee. Seven caddies returned the balls, patted down little sand tees, scurried down the course as the man kept poling out drives like an automaton. Suddenly from another part of the fairway came a shrill cry of warning. Without hesitation the man dropped his club, scampered into a clump of nearby bushes. Few minutes later there came another cry. The man returned, resumed his work...
...keeping bad milk off the tables, but would add to the kitchen that human element which is so essential a part of any large food purveying establishment. It is just this touch of individuality that gives world famous restaurants their reputations. Oscar of the Waldorf is no mere automaton, but an artist who knows the difference between curds and whey...
...Baptist Church, Dr. Compton attends nearly every Sunday, is actively interested in missions, Y. M. C. A. and settlement work. Like Britain's Eddington, he sees in Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle (which avers that the behavior of electrons is unpredictable) evidence that man is not an automaton in a mechanistic universe, but a free agent responsible to his Creator. "Science can have no quarrel," says Arthur Compton. ''with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are as His children...