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...about 50 ft. up, pointing their noses down to give the ropes some slack so that the plane can get off. Once in the air, like the yachtsman who watches the trembling sail lest it spill the wind, a glider pilot must keep his towline taut or suffer a jerk when it suddenly springs tight. Even in the air, an instructor makes a student keep his ship about 50 feet higher than the towplane to avoid its slipstream...
...station they were met by an elegant chef de protocole, who led the way to a commemorative plaque. After allowing Acting President Castillo a couple of tugs which failed to untwitch the covering, the officious chef de protocole unveiled the plaque with a jerk. Next he ordered photographs to be posed, driving Santiago Luis Cardinal Copello in & out of pictures until the Cardinal was hopelessly confused. When Vice Admiral Mario Fincati, Minister of Marine, was missing at the moment he should have signed, the chef de protocole peremptorily shouted: "Fincati! Fincati! Where's Fincati?-and sent dignified, elderly...
Using just the right tension, Vag overcame the wiry toughness of the French bread with an unsophisticated jerk, and settled back to enjoy the fruits of his conquest. He marvelled at the deft skill with which he had snared the bread from under the clutch of his neighbor. "Physical Ed's made me a new man," he gloated, proudly fondling the bulging biceps of his right arm. Gracefully ignoring the fork that clattered to the floor, Vag reached out for his cup of tea. The long last month wasn't so bad at that, he reflected as he sipped contentedly...
Despite the fact that silent films of The Gold Rush era were photographed for projection at 60 feet a minute, the picture unrolls with hardly a jerk at today's 90-feet-a-minute speed. The photography is remarkably good for its age, and the stronger light of modern projection machines considerably improves...
...Wayland ("Curly") Brooks is an oldtime rabble-rouser, a flag-waving Billy Sunday orator who can jerk tears from any group of mothers with a recital of his own World War I experiences (wounded seven times, bemedaled thrice). He is the candidate of the Chicago Tribune's Roosevelt-hating publisher, Colonel Robert R. ("Bertie") McCormick. The lank Colonel had tried vainly to get Brooks elected to high office for years, finally got him by when the State went Republican in 1940. Frizzle-haired, heavy-set Curly Brooks, like his sponsor, was one of the most violent of Isolationists before...