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...corner of Nanking Road, not one block from the Wing On department store, accidentally demolished by Chinese air bombs last August, the inevitable grenade was thrown. "I saw a figure across the street throw something," John McPhee, Scottish inspector of Shanghai police, related afterward. "I watched a blur coming toward me. The object hit the ground and rolled between my feet. I pushed a Japanese civilian away and turned around just as the object exploded. A piece of shrapnel cut through my coat and hit my police card. I'm pretty lucky. I thought I was a goner...
When the seals came into the circle of light the fish were thoroughly frightened, and quickly gained speed and surfaced. As soon as the wings cleared ever so slightly they were flapped in flight-the motion being so rapid as to constitute practically a blur of movement, like the wings of humming birds...
...turn of some 20 degrees or so . . . to the left or to the right, and in each case the flight continued at what appeared to be uniform speed. Sometimes a short flight might"be renewed. One seemed to see the wings extended at an angle upward in a fluttering blur of movement...
...blond, stocky assistant director. He picked her out of a mob scene and gave her a lorgnette. The lorgnette made what is known as a "halation"-a spot of light reflected upon the camera lens and magnified. Nowadays cameramen watch scenes for halation. When they find them they blur the bright spot with putty or paint or move a light to avoid the reflection. No putty was daubed on Dietrich's lorgnette. It attracted attention to her. In the next picture she got a better part. Sieber worked hard trying to push her ahead. After a few months...
...Passes' own homesick return after the War: spine stiffens with the remembered chill of the offshore Atlantic and the jag of framehouses in the west above the invisible land and spiderweb rollercoasters and the chewinggum towers of Coney and the freighters with their stacks way aft and the blur beyond Sandy Hook...