Word: staccatoed
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...Manhattan this week, Republican voters in the Congressional district which contains most that is interesting on the wealthiest U. S. island-i.e., it contains the glittering end of Park Avenue and the staccato sectors of Fifth Avenue and Broadway-were asked to choose, for G. O. P. Congressional nominee, between...
...Assassin is written in powerful style, replete with staccato photographic impressions...
...Playwright. Eugene Gladstone O'Neill is the son of actor James O'Neill, famed across the U. S. in earlier days as Monte Cristo. With his trouping father and a devoted mother, not an actress, he spent staccato years in larger cities where James O'Neill was acting. After that, school days under Catholic and later conventional preparatory schoolmasters. Then a year at Princeton, whence he was fired for a "prank." Then an inordinate mixture of oddities. He worked in a mail order firm in Manhattan; went gold prospecting to Honduras; shipped as a common sailor to South American ports...
Newsgatherers were humbly attentive, last week at Mexico City, when a "perfect story," pristine, dramatic, significant, was told in staccato sentences by a tall, exhausted, emaciated U. S. citizen...
...Idea: Foreign sophistication in a U. S. cookbook.* The Motive: To surprise U. S. cooks with the knowledge that a few left-over green peppers may be transformed into either Mexican frijoles or Armenian dolmas. The Story: Mrs. Ruth A. Jeremiah Gottfried has assembled in staccato sentences 128 recipes: "The booty that one casual observer in foreign kitchens found practical to bring home and too tempting to leave behind." Each recipe has a catch-eye head- ing?some with snap. Examples: "Pilaf: An Extinct Soup"; "Carme-leis: Swoons in Cream"; "Silde-boller: Hamburger with Fins." Eyes which have been caught...