Word: staccatos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...snowing-a dry, cold, tiny-flaked snow. In his country house near Greenwich, Conn., which is cluttered with a variety of electronic gadgets, Dr. Orestes H. Caldwell, editor of Electronic Industries, was fiddling with his short-wave radio. It seemed to be afflicted with a peculiar kind of staccato static. He turned on his television set, found it similarly affected, the interference appearing as a series of rapid black & white flashes on the screen...
There's a fine array of hot music that had most of the audience tapping its feet and wiggling around in its chairs. The first part is native rars tonga and what not, punctuated with plenty of staccato drum beating. The second part is mostly American songs, including "Kansas City Blues" and "Dark Town Strutters Hall...
...capital in the province of Shensi, barred to correspondents since 1939. First stop in Shensi was at Sian, since 1937 the Kuomintang's key military and political bastion against the Communist threat. There the correspondents were handsomely wined & dined. Dense crowds lined the streets, breaking into staccato cheers at a given signal. Waiters had "V" for Victory hastily stitched on their caps. A plane had brought them to the capital of Shensi; busses and horses would take them over the rest of their three-month inspection tour. The Government had promised no political censorship, provided the reports carried Chungking...
Elsewhere in a world whose humor had turned to New Yorker sophistication (which Ade liked), and to the staccato gag-making of the Red Skeltons, Jack Bennys and Bob Hopes (which he disliked), George Ade was an almost forgotten name. Columnist Leonard Lyons reported that Humorist Bob Benchley had to repair to the Stork Club to forget, after hearing a CBS announcer tell about the death of "the Indiana writer, George...
...improved . . . but now I lose my wind too quickly.' I partially closed up the arch in the bicuspid region. 'Fine,' said my patient after another experiment with his flute. [Then] the patient suddenly stopped and his face registered horror. 'Doctor, I'm losing my staccato...