Word: clicks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stanford, robbed of two of the three quick-breaking backs that made the tricky T formation click, march into the Rose Bowl again this year...
...crack songwriting team (willowy Ann Sothern and stuffy Robert Young) splits up because its male member is too fond of wallowing in high society. They divorce and become separate failures. They remarry and click again. Then, for unco good measure, they very nearly repeat the routine. This folderol consumes no minutes...
...broadcast as it progressed, my wife, two guests and I were startled to hear the speaker repeat himself, not once, but twice, three, four, five times-"and let us have-" "and let us have-" "and let us have-" "and let us have-." In a moment there was a telling "click" as the disse tation continued. According to the announcer, the speaker was Wodehouse in person. Was his face red when, in order to get Wodehouse "out of the groove," he had to move the needle along the recording? I doubt...
...farm products. Still, St. Louis has nothing to mope about. Manager Billy Southworth, a paternal oldtimer with infectious enthusiasm, has a green thumb for ripening green players. This year's Cardinals have six regulars batting over .300; Creepy Crespi, a rookie second-baseman who has made the infield click; Ernie White, a 24-year-old South Carolina southpaw who, in his first year with the Big Team, has won twelve games-three of them on three successive days...
...soul had bolts and screws Took the blind engines screw by screw apart For 'Readjustment'--not redemption, now--And working in the dark where none can work, With diagrams of the soul's machinery, Taught the new bogus teachers how to make Their automatic robots of mankind . . . Ready to click their heels at the right lie, And march, to Wagner's music, anywhere...