Word: splashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tails quiver in the air. The mako soars up stiff as a poker. For a moment it hangs motionless at 20 or 30 ft., blue of back, white of belly; its great pectoral fins spread wide. Then it flips over, falls back broadside to the sea with the splash of a wrecked airplane...
...farther inland, on the narrow sills of shore, are the two tiny villages of Tafjord and Fjoraa. For months the villagers have looked up at a great overhanging jut of rock that was beginning to crack of its own weight. Some day, they knew, it would fall and splash into the fjord. But no one guessed how big that splash would...
...mass of rock cracked decisively and fell, with awful deliberation. The roar of its slide woke the villagers in their beds, a few fishermen in their sloops offshore, and the operator in the power station who threw on his switch and lit the two villages and the moving mountainside. Splash! A small piece fell in the water, sent a six-ft. wall of water up the fjord, inundated the power station and plunged the villages into darkness again. The villagers rushed out of their houses toward the slopes. Splash! A bigger piece of mountain descended, heaving a loft. wall...
...Concertino on second hearing was perhaps more ingratiating than at its premier two years ago. It succeeds in accomplishing its intentions with proper buoyancy and Lustigkeit. The concertino is in one movement, opening with a jazzy theme and then passing to a brief slow movement; from a grand splash for the piano, a vigorous rondo, interspersed with a recurrence of the previous themes, concludes the piece. Pianists may rightfully resent the use of the "instrument of the immortals" as a mere bundle of hammers...
...bootleggers are driven out of business; unfortunately, these charming bits of descriptive writing have of late been pushed off the front pages by articles on the latest boost in federal tax per gallon on all liquors. The thinking man has retired from all this balderdash and poppycock to splash about in an oversize bathtub of the good old home-mixed gin; and in so doing, he unconsciously indicates a way out for the nation...