Word: staccatos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that Fred Astaire is still a superb dancer and a deft light-comedian and that Rita Hayworth is. still the most ambrosial lady he has ever teamed with. But Astaire underplays his lively feet and Miss Hayworth overplays her lovely hand. Even so, Astaire's dancing has the staccato precision of a military command, and Rita Hayworth, merely walking down a staircase, is something to risk court-martial...
...Truth. Stockholder Okin bellowed on: "I'm going to tell the whole truth about the company's officers and directors . . . and don't anybody try to stop me." Paced by the staccato poundings of President Sam Murphy, Okin told how he had bought 9,000 shares of Ebasco stock, was about to lose everything because "the management had tried to sell the company down the river by playing into the hands of the SEC." Up went shouts: "Fight the SEC!" "Save our company!" A peacemaker tried to smooth things over, got so wrought up himself that...
...dancer, shows no signs of slowing down. Each of his routines has a new and different sparkle. One, performed while tipsy, is a deft parody of jitterbuggery. Another, a 4th of July number done to the accompaniment of torpedoes and firecrackers, is his favorite staccato buck & wing, with some fresh frills. A dazzler for any audience, it was a headache for studio technicians. Astaire could explode his own torpedoes, but the firecrackers had to pop in time with his fidgety feet. Technicians built an organ that would set off the crackers electrically, so that the organist could play the explosions...
...reality only to turn it into a fantasy. Thumper goes along being all rabbit, suddenly does something purely human. The shift is hilarious. Thumper's chief accomplishment is a hereditary talent for thumping his long left foot against the earth, a log, or anything else, with the staccato crack of a tommy...
...staccato questions and treble chatter in the 440 recruiting stations got on officers' nerves. Cried a lieutenant in Manhattan: "Ladies, please, for gosh sake, shut up a minute!" Said another officer: "They're just as tough to handle in this recruiting office as they are in civilian life -see what I mean?" Recruiting for WAAC officers will continue until June 4. Then each of the nine corps areas will pick 60 names. The 450 women finally chosen from these will go to Fort Des Moines, Iowa for training, beginning July...