Word: staccatos
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This ideal of education and welldoing, as all the world knows, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg has followed with rare assiduity, with an amazing versatility of means. The retelling of these sounds like the staccato popping of a high speed motor...
...OFFICE - Nathan Asch - Harcourt, Brace ($2.00). Some staccato words are ripped out. There is The Office: tape, shares, toil, sex, money. The office fails and you go home with the various people whose lives centre in it. A stenographer has to forget the junior partner and marry her boyfriend. The stupid figurehead of the firm trembles, tells his wife. Clerks curse, get other jobs. The junior partner brandishes his cane, plans to run away and be a heman; slinks to his father instead. The crooked partner plans another office. Author Asch seems to know his Wall Street and hate...
...obscure places in the Chinese quarters of St. Louis, Cleveland, Chicago, Baltimore, Pittsburgh?calls in which the connection had been requested in carefully articulated English, followed by the rushing speech of a dim voice haranguing in a chant of monosyllables an unseen Oriental a thousand miles away. ... a staccato cry of comprehension. . . . the click of a receiver...
...direct, simple statement, directly and simply believed. Herr Luther then proceeded to make two more staccato points: 1) In regard to the failure of the Allies to evacuate...
...Know. Behind this somewhat enigmatic nameplate stands the structure of a highly entertaining comedy. Within the structure, stands a delightful personality?Grace George, vigorously assisted by the staccato Bruce McRae. Taken as a whole property, She Had to Know is one of the most attractive of current theatrical investments...