Word: clicking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another beer from the refrigerator, pulled the string again and returned to the large, black leather couch in the sanctum. The night was hot and quiet and the beer cold and satisfying. A blue magnesium light on Plympton Street flickered white, then changed back to blue with a litle click. Someone's phonograph was playing from a room in Adams House. Suddenly, completely without warning, the fragile atmosphere shattered into a million crazy sounds. At first they were all garbled like a short wave broadcast, and Vag could not make them out. He lay back on the couch and listened...
Until after the seventh-inning stretch the contest was a scoreless deadlock, with the pitching of Ed Murphy and Berg the chief attraction. Then, sparked by a sudden vocal surge from the fans, the Crimson began to click...
Very much worthwhile, however, are the views of Leathernecks in training. The Marines have class, and it shows at every click of the camera shutter-in the way they handle their grunting green tanks, the symphonic grace of their close-order drill, the impressive torso power of their mass setting-up exercises. But it shows best in one chance shot of a nameless Marine, at liberty, decked out in blue & scarlet, sauntering along with the easy, uncoiled assurance of a fighting man who knows no one can lick...
After leaving college, Hanby became a preacher, but there was more music in him than preaching. When Benjamin Hanby died at 33, he had written 75 songs. Two others are still sung today: a children's Christmas song, Up on the Housetop (Up on the housetop, click, click, click; Down through the chimney with good St. Nick), and the hymn Who Is He?, included in the hymnal of the Church of England in Canada...
...have left is Garbo, trying hard to be sexy. She may have her points as an actress, but certainly not her curves, so as a naughty bedroom comedy the film just doesn't click...