Word: interruptible
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...solemnly playing backgammon, last week, in the warm sitting room of a small house at Louveciennes. Several correspondents hovered irritably around the placid players, not quite daring to interrupt. From the bottom of profane hearts they cursed Old Dr. Turner for the maddening deliberation of his moves. Why didn't he lose, or win? A pox on backgammon! They wanted to interview the other venerable player, the grizzled yet roly-poly one, the man with the shrewd smiling eyes, the Marshal of France, Joseph Joffre, 76, famed hero of the Battle of the Marne...
...Philadelphia last week Conductor Leopold Anton Stanislaw Stokowski continued to discipline his audience (TIME, Nov. 12). At an afternoon concert he gave stragglers just one minute, 58 seconds to find their seats, then had the doors closed. Hereafter Philadelphia Orchestra concerts will begin promptly and nothing will interrupt...
...sprightliness of an old spinster's darling, last week displayed a letter from Governor Meriwether Lewis Walker of the Panama Canal Zone, permitting him to try to swim the 50 miles of the Canal. He started. No long-distance swimmer, this self-generator of publicity intended to interrupt his feat every time he grew tired. A soldier in a motor boat accompanied him to shoot at any obnoxious alligators. Trans-canal steamship passage was not halted. Nonetheless, the proposed stunt approached the scandalous. It costs the U. S. several hundred dollars to open the canal locks needed...
...definite result of Prince Carol's presence in Nice and Monte Carlo was to interrupt momentarily certain German-Rumanian financial negotiations which had been proceeding quietly at nearby Mentone. There Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann of Germany was taking an industrious rest cure at the sunny Hotel Cap Martin (TIME, Feb. 13). He had been joined by Foreign Minister Nicholas Titulescu of Rumania, who recently visited Rome and Paris; and with the arrival of German Finance Minister Heinrich Koehler the negotiations were in full swing. They related to Rumania's claim upon Germany for redemption of the German...
Robinson: "Mr. President, I think the Senator from Alabama had better not interrupt...