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...cold. Several times Gobel got up to go out in the empty, soot-black courtyard for air. Then he would come back to clatter coal into his boiler. It made a great deal of noise. It was 3:40 (he was off at 6) when Gobel went out in the yard for his next look around. It was his last one. This time there was noise in the boiler room but not from the shovel. Weigand scrambled over the coal pile. A slug shattered his right arm. He dropped his gun on the coal. He picked it up with...
...Manhattan's National Horse Show occupied their boxes at Madison Square Garden as usual last week but there were times when they seemed to shiver slightly. At times the 47th show looked like a rodeo, at times like a sham cavalry battle. The Garden shook with the clatter of rough riders, trick riding, polo, mounted basketball, and police squads knocking one another's hats off with sticks. The National Horse Show Association's new president, J. Spencer...
There was a clatter of iron hooves over the London cobbles, a flutter of knightly plumes under the royal gates, and the commoners of London, "the poor mechanicals" of the poet, ran out from their shops and gaped down the street at Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex come from the Irish bogs to make his peace with Elizabeth. The noble earl's visit was impelled more by ardor than discretion, so the old chronicle hath it, for it was early morning and the queen was not in the parlor. Elizabeth received her favorite coldly, and Essex retired...
...late Dictator Primo De Rivera and of exiled King Alfonso, whom he faintly, fatly resembles. "Just the time for a coup d'état," he chuckled to himself as he sped south from Madrid one torrid night. Next day Sevillanos on their way to lunch heard the clatter of hoofs, the tramp of feet, much blowing of bugles in the broad Plaza de Espana. There they found General Sanjurjo on horseback before the city hall. Behind him was a column of Civil Guards, infantry and medical corps. From his pocket the general withdrew a piece of paper, unfolded...
Show Boat does not begin with a noisy medley of the song hits to accompany the customers' march down the aisles, the clatter-bang of seats. Its prelude establishes the play's mood, introduces definite themes, just as Wagner introduced themes in his preludes to develop them later on. The people in Show Boat have characteristic motifs just as Wotan and Siegfried have theirs in the Ring operas. Cap'n Andy Hawks has a light, rollicking phrase all his own. Parthy, his New England wife, has a phrase as shrewish and tart as Actress Edna May Oliver...