Word: clicks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offense is to click on Friday, we must get down to practice every day this week--you know what happened against Leverett House...
...newshawks scurried for the door. Telegraph keys began to click out news that jostled President Roosevelt's Green Bay speech for No. 1 Press position. Trading in silver futures was promptly suspended on Manhattan's Commodities Exchange. With the Government as prospective owner of all silver at a fixed price, silver brokers were out of a job. The news flashed to Wall Street, and speculators, thinking of inflation, began to sell U. S. bonds until the Government hastily came to their rescue with bids higher than the prices at which they were for sale. The news flashed to London...
...this prayerful ending a hush gripped the throng. Click. The King-Emperor had closed the gold switch during his speech. Slowly as he spoke the great curtain rolled away disclosing the arched entrance to Queensway. Amid wave on wave of cheering His Majesty drove with the Queen-Empress by his side through the gleaming new arch and down under the Mersey with transatlantic liners riding at anchor over his royal head...
...first German ship nosed up toward 220 gaudy Italian uniforms. A door popped open and Adolf Hitler sprang his little surprise. He stepped out not in Nazi uniform but wearing an old rain coat over a dark business suit and crushing in his left hand a rumpled brown hat. Click!-the heels of II Duce's black top boots snapped together and up went his arm in the Roman salute Nazis have borrowed. Up went Der Führers arm, too, and Dictator eyed Dictator, each stern to the point of glowering. For the first time on record...
...eighties along with the rest of that school which did so much to acquaint America with herself. And yet one has the feeling that Granville Hicks was right: the school is one which has disappeared from our literature, and attempts to revive it somehow have not seemed to click. It is a thing of the nineteenth century; and those who try to bring back into reality the scenes and haunts of their youth which they have long yearned to immortalize, are doomed to disappoint a reading world which today seems interested in a different type of American literature...