Word: salvo
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Mark Kent as Poalo Salvo, the manager of great opera singers, does a remarkably fine piece of work. This usually reserved and dignified old man becomes a flowery and flery foreigner who throws kisses, gesticulates wildly, and never once steps out of his part...
...visitors opened the scoring in the first inning when Sargent got to first on a single, advanced to third on Cahill's hit, and came home after Clark had caught a long fly in center field. But the Crimson was not long in overcoming this lead as its answering salvo was aided by two opportune errors. Clark, the first man up, was walked and reached home on a hit by Gordon which was fumbled in right field. A left field fly by Jenkins resulted in an error and Gordon had time to cross the plate for the second count...
...with a lightness of touch that rivaled even Nijinsky, the famous Russian cheer leader. I have seen the Michigan leader, apparently boxed by substitutes on the side lines, leap high into the air and with a deft gesture of the index finger draw from his cheering section a perfect salvo, sometimes two salvi, of applause. I have seen him handle the Michigan "locomotive," a clumsy oratorio at best, with a deftness of forearm movement and an utter absence of physical effort which transformed it into a veritable octavo volume of sound with deckled edges...
...sentry. The Mayor thought that by turning to the right we might ge out to Mazerulles and see some artillery in action. So we passed swiftly out of Champenoux to the eastward, only to be brought up after we had gone half a mile or so by a salvo from a battery of soixante-quinzes installed in a carefully concealed position close to the roadside. We were not 50 yards distant from the guns when they went off, and feeling that further advance might lead us into difficulties we stopped...