Word: staccatos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sculptor Lukeman's work was not cut out for him. For three years he has been cutting it. With scaffolds and staccato electric drills his pygmy assistants have swarmed over the face of Stone Mountain, moulding the gigantic nose, beard, shoulders of General Lee. Often on the plains below has walked Samuel H. Venable of Atlanta. He is the spokesman of the Venable heirs who donated the memorial site...
...pursues with a sheriff. In self-defense he signs a rival producer's contract, and marries a sub-star from Kansas City, to the luxurious jingle of magnificent jewels, gilt-edged limousines, plum-colored footmen, in short−Hollywood. The author handles his glittering incredible material with staccato brilliance...
...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...