Word: staccatos
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...Battery, where they plumped into a Coast Guard Patrol cutter and vanished down murky New York Harbor chasing the fleet S. S. Aquitania, eastbound. . . . Last week, tired, grimy, grinning, the same two men returned to the Pulitzer Building in brown canvas flying suits, crouching in automobiles outridden by staccato police motorcycles...
Scorpions crawled on the bosom of Lake Cayuga one afternoon last week - the red-and-white-footed scorpion of Cornell and the blue-and-gold of California. For nearly three miles they crawled evenly, staccato voices in their tails urging their legs to greater labor. Then open water began to show. There was a scorpion's length of it between the two when Cornell-her eight gigantic hearties bursting from a last effort which her slightly lighter California guests could not match-shot across the line, winner of a crew race that promised brave things for Cornell later...
Indeed, March, having appeared like a lion, finds Cambridge besieged by a plague of cynicism almost approximating the plague of colds now making lectures objectively staccato. This month might be and really is called by some dog might be and really is called by some dog days, mainly due, of course, to this sweeping cynicism, and not as some might think, because the sun is climbing northward with a persistency remarkable for one so old. So the thinking being when he climbs into bed to race the blissful nirvana of eclipsed regrets occasionally wastes a few minutes and an aspirin...
Helen Wills threw up her hand in a staccato gesture of despair for Tolley's crumbling intellect, his blindness. "Out, out," shouted the spectators, confident that they could see better than Mr. Tolley, whose stool was a yard from the baseline. Possibly the ball was out; possibly the decision kept Miss Wills from winning the greatest match of her life. No one will ever know. Suzanne Lenglen, against whom some equally dubious decision had been called in the first set, ran out the set 8-6, and a moment later was borne from the court on the shoulders...
...BENITO MUSSOLINI?From the Italian of Margherita G. Sarfatti?Stokes ($5). Emphatically, the Signora Sarfatti's biography must be read?if only because she is content to efface herself so often while the great Fascist thunders in his own words from her pages?reveals himself vividly in impetuous staccato phrases as compelling as those with which Napoleon Premier was wont to inspire and almost to hypnotize his armies...