Word: catch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most ingenious and almost uncanny are the uses of the telegraphone. One may record a steady, even speech of about a half an hour, or he may catch fragments, separating them by brief intervals of silence. At any time the machine may be reversed in order that reproduction may be carried on. But the process of rendering the record audible does not destroy it. Once anyone has spoken into the transmitter a permanent record is set down which may be preserved literally forever. Moreover, the wire may be cut and repaired like moving picture film, with no danger...
...handkerchief trick, hit him a shattering blow behind the ear. Griffo was out. Griffo swelled to 235 pounds before he died. For years too fat for the handkerchief trick, he never lost the lightning of his hand and eye. To the day of his death he could catch a fly in flight between his thumb & forefinger. The day of his death, like most of the days of his life, found Griffo without a dime. Money was minted to his memory. In an imposing white metal casket, gift of Tex Rickard, Griffo was buried from the consequential Madison Avenue Baptist Church...
...seems flat and dull!" Artist Christy, fired by his wife to enthusiasm, cried: "Mussolini is perfect. ... He let us do anything we wanted-anything. ... I could go in for a sitting feeling pretty low. One look at him and I was filled with enthusiasm. He radiates power, and you catch some of it from him!" Calm, Artist Christy announced that he would at once put on view at his apartment (No. 1 West 67th St., Manhattan) not only his new portrait of Mussolini but another depicting Crown Prince Humberto of Italy...
...peppers may be transformed into either Mexican frijoles or Armenian dolmas. The Story: Mrs. Ruth A. Jeremiah Gottfried has assembled in staccato sentences 128 recipes: "The booty that one casual observer in foreign kitchens found practical to bring home and too tempting to leave behind." Each recipe has a catch-eye head- ing?some with snap. Examples: "Pilaf: An Extinct Soup"; "Carme-leis: Swoons in Cream"; "Silde-boller: Hamburger with Fins." Eyes which have been caught but perhaps frightened by pilaf, carme-leis and sildeboller are then directed to a consoling, italicized reassurance: The actual instructions for preparing each dish...
...which one feels will be purchased chiefly for gift purposes. Present-day Paris is not what it was. The foreigners have come with their money and changed it all around. The spontaneity of pre-War night-life has vanished. In its place flourishes a synthetic performance designed chiefly to catch the pound and the dollar. All of which constitutes practically a minimum in the way of news. There is some gossip in the book which will moderately interest the denizens of the Ritz (Cambon side...