Word: clicks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Privately, prominent Danzig Nazis were ready to admit that the Polish Army would click into action if Adolf Hitler dared as much as even to reach for Danzig. They thought the Realmleader would not dare reach, just yet. However, the Nazi electioneering corps from Berlin last week surpassed all records in spouting at Danzig gems of German thought...
...Maurice Chevalier surpassed himself and pulled the bill through with a high B plus. The "Folies Bergere de Paris," which, by the way, is not the "Folies Bergere" at all, is a clever farce in which the beautiful women, charming dialogue, and sure fire situations resound with a definite click. The movie has already received a favorable review in these columns and we can but pat the University on the back for billing...
Author Faulkner likes Joycean agglutinations. Example from Pylon: " 'Deposit five cents for three minutes please,' the bland machine-voice chanted. The metal stalk sweatclutched, the guttapercha bloom cupping his breathing back at him, he listened, fumbled, counting as the discreet click and cling died into wirehum...
...grinned. Meantime another 100 words of collect message had come through on the first machine. Soon 400 words had been clicked out. The editor's brow clouded: Was this an expensive practical joke? He sat down again and asked: TUCSON, ARIZ. ARE YOU SURE COLLECT MESSAGE IS SENT BY EX-PRESIDENT HOOVER? Click, Click, Click. The machine responded: SENT BY HOOVER IN PERSON. The editor shrugged. About that time, at the end of 600 words, the original message ended. Cost to the United Press...
...somehow fails to click. . . ." complained John Mason Brown in the Post. His critical box score was top that year...