Word: flickerings
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Like Breakfast with the Borgias. All sat down on stools with the air of men sinking into the electric chair. Bill tucked his pistol into his belt, hustled around behind the counter, chased the counterman and Morton Flicker, the owner's 20-year-old son, into a back room. Then Bill began dispensing hospitality. "Well, gentlemen," he cried, rubbing his hands as his astounded victims cringed, "what will it be? It's all on me. You only have to order." Nobody said a word. "Ham and eggs!" cried Bill. "In a moment, sir!" Soon he was cooking...
...converged on it. Laughing Bill did not turn a hair. He called the owner's son out of the back room and said, "Tell a good story. One I'll like." When cops came piling in with drawn guns, Bill beamed, the customers chewed hysterically and Morton Flicker explained that the trouble-just a fight between two drunks-was over. The cops departed...
Even after Bill was identified, however, John Flicker, the owner of the plundered diner, could not stop laughing long enough to get angry. "My sides ache," he said weakly, after all reports were in. "How I wish I coulda seen it. Wotta sense of yooma...
...warning booming of the miniature cannon on the committee boat sounds the approach of a race's starting time, Shields settles down to the business at hand: getting off to a split-second start. Nobody racing today does it better. His eyes flicker from the tiny "telltales" of thread on the stays (for gauging wind) to his stopwatches, to the starting line, to his sails, which. Corny stoutly maintains, "are 75% of racing success." All the while, he issues quiet orders to his crew of fellow amateurs...
...going bourgeois, while the middle class yearns to be aristocratic; meanwhile, a muscular and gullible type that Continental writers like to call the "mass man" is pushing his way, for better or worse, to the front of the stage. Musil's satire has a deadpan deadliness. Without a flicker of visible distaste, he simply lets his characters talk themselves into positions of advanced absurdity...