Word: signalize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Half Time by Bohuslav Martinu seems to mirror in sound the delirium of a football game-bass-drum drop-kicks cannonading, harmonies lining stiffly against each other, breaking, at a signal, into isolated, screaming units. Critics, adopting this theory, compared it favorably to Honegger's Pacific 231 (TIME, Oct. 27). Said Martinu: "As the composer, I beg to state that Half Time is not a sport composition . . . it registers no football game, no whistle of umpire or protests of the crowd. . . . The problem is one of rhythm and construction . . . a reaction against impressionism...
Search. In Danes Gut, Spitzbergen, Amundsen's base ships, From and Hobby, awaited the zero hour fixed by their instructions. The hour struck and no seaplane zoomed in from the north, nor was any signal from the smoke bombs Amundsen had taken with him visible on the horizon. Glad of a chance for action, the waiting ones had up their anchors, steamed for the edge of the ice-floes, the Hobby heading northeast, the From northwest...
...Manhattan, a young woman was crossing a street, right foot, left foot, across asphalt sticky with heat. Turned a traffic signal, charged down on her two lines of motors. Alarmed, she stood still. Her heels sank into the tar, were held fast. She gave a lurch. Her foot came from her slipper. She put her steaming foot back into her slipper, wrenched once more, and once more it slipped out, causing her to lose her balance, plunge her foot into the tar which gripped her stocking as she wrestled, dragged it half off. For a moment she balanced, storklike...
...Devil. Lionel Barrymore's appearance in any show is a signal for a certain quantity of thanksgiving. With his three shows this year-The Piker, Taps, and Man or Devi]-the quantity has, it is true, been decreasing. The first were failures and the last will scarcely do on these hot evenings. Yet it is the best of the lot. Jerome K. Jerome, the playwright, had the quaint idea of shifting, through a convenient necromancy, the soul of a young sailor into the shuffling old body of a miser. The sailor got the stinginess in the transaction and immediately...
...brought to the fore through the peculiar "action" of the preferred stock. Many speculators, deeming the issue of little value, sold it "short." There are, however, only 19,635 shares of it, and few of these are in Wall Street available for trading purposes. In consequence, there followed a signal case of "squeezing the shorts." From under 50, the stock shot up to about 70-not because it was intrinsically worth so much as because so many people had sold it who did not own it. The Stock Exchange is closely watching the stock, in fear of a corner developing...