Word: flutterer
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...Music' I have as good a time as possible, especially in the spy scene, where I can flutter about to my heart's content, distributing revolutionary propaganda all over the stage...
...lingering hope of the dispirited defenders of Madrid was for an honorable, merciful peace. But from General Franco's headquarters in Burgos had come no promise of quarter, only a repeated demand for unconditional surrender-the white flag over Madrid. Then, last Tuesday morning, white flags began to flutter wanly over the ramparts of Madrid, the last symbol of Spanish resistance to the advance of Fascism...
...with a dull thud. Employer and employee, like two antlered moose, have clashed their horns and now stand panting. Countless thousands of multi-syllabled words are gouged out of textbooks and, still squirming, are grafted into theses. Scholarship applications are sorted into neat piles, and a termbill, soon to flutter into every mailbox, is being reckoned in Lehman Hall...
...photographed one by one. Len Lye, however, paints or stencils his designs by hand, slowly and methodically, on the thin ribbon of film stock itself. Some of the names Len Lye gave to musical effects: "a splurged woomph" (drum beat), "a zing-a-zing-a-zing-a-zing" (violin), "flutter" (clarinet...
...Flutter of the week in Manhattan was caused by the first exhibition of paintings by famed Muralist Diego Rivera's German-Mexican wife, Frida Kahlo. Too shy to show her work before, black-browed little Frida has been painting since 1926, when an automobile smashup put her in a plaster cast, "bored as hell...