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...lifebelt containing a tube full of sulphuric acid and a portion of bicarbonate. Any slight jar breaks the tube, generates carbon dioxide which automatically inflates the belt...
...merely schoolteacherish grammar. No painter wants his picture to be merely good architectural perspective. Both writer and painter do have a common purpose: the writer, to amuse, to shock, to entertain the reader; the painter, to amuse, to shock, to entertain the galleryite: both in-tend to jar your emotions. A fiction writer, to stir your guts, will split any infinitive that gets in the way. A painter, for the same reason, may draw his horizon line perpendicular, and scatter vanishing points like confetti...
...aptly up to date. Cantor is a star-struck autograph hunter on his way to Hollywood for a rubberneck vacation among the famous faces. He stumbles on the desert location of a cinema company making an episode from the Arabian Nights, becomes an extra, falls asleep in the jar reserved for Ali Baba...
...conclusion is irresistible that the attraction of Gilbert-Sullivan opera is not sufficient to overcome my inertia. The reason is not jar to seek. Mr. Gilbert's paradoxical wit, astonishing to the ordinary Englishman, is nothing to me. Nature has cursed me with a facility for the same trick; and I could paradox Mr. Gilbert's head off were I not convinced that such trifling is morally unjustifiable. As to Sir Arthur's scores, they form an easy introduction to dramatic music and picturesque or topical orchestration for perfect novices; but as I had learned...
When last year he brought Max Schmeling from Germany to give hitherto undefeated Joe Louis a terrible beating, it did not jar Mike Jacobs. Although the logical sequel would have been a match between Schmeling and World Champion Jim Braddock, who was under contract to the Garden, that sequence of events was not considered by Jacobs to offer the maximum profit. There was a rapid flurry of decisions by the New York State Athletic Commission, lawsuits, injunctions, statements, challenges and denials-and presto! the Garden's champion was set to defend his title against Joe Louis in Chicago...