Word: split-second
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...neat little trick in the repertoire of every French Prime Minister is the one by which he picks exactly the right split-second to adjourn Parliament before Mm. Les Députés upset his Cabinet. Always as a session draws to its close French legislators become hyperexcitable, super-suspicious, jealous of their power, ready to shout the Government out of office on any pretext. All last week the Chamber was bedlam...
Cinema films, "shot" from a platform near the ring, were expected to settle the positive contentions of three schools of thought which sprang up from the split-second observations of many men and their emotional memories. But when the films were shown, Dempsey's back was found squarely blocking from view the disputed action of his right fist in the seventh round. The schools of contention all thrived and the films were virtually tripled in value. Every cinema spectator could still be his own referee on the thrust which men held, variously, had 1) landed fair, above Sharkey's high...
...throes of excitement and confusion incidental to this iron age. The furor is the result of bungling man's efforts to adjust his life, political organization, education, to the whizzing circle of accelerating machine civilization. The satire seeks to prove 1) That man is too busy being stimulated by split-second meals, red-hot tabloids and undressed dramatics to enjoy the simple compensations of life; 2) that in trying to regulate the political structure so as to alleviate economic distress, man swings from autocracy to democracy with perfect futility. The settings convey an impression of cogwheels, greasy steel pistons, chains...
...private car padded with silver canvas. They mentioned the morning that this horse had taken his first workout in the chill dews of seven o'clock- a morning when the trainer had stood at the rail, frantically signaling Watson the exercise boy, to slow down, while the split-second gentry compared watches, believing that they must have made some mistake in timing this incredible horse. It was W. R. Coe's Pompey, as sure a winner as a sporting man could...