Word: staccatos
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Amid the gentle, staccato popping of many walnuts in their test machine, the designers were able to boast last week that their device delivers no less than 60% of the output in fat whole and half meats. Previous gadgets were good if they produced 20% unbroken meats. The inventors are taking out a patent on their machine, think explosive nutcrackers can be built in quantity for $200 each...
...year-old Kreisler. What they expected, and got, was an afternoon of leisurely, charming, old-school fiddling such as only Fritz Kreisler can put on. Kreisler's playing is to the exact, nervous fiddling of today what a Kentucky colonel's drawl is to the feverish staccato of a prizefight announcer...
...instance Vag's reflections, stimulated somewhat by the Radcliffe girls at a joint Glee Club rehearsal, the other night proved to be more painful than pleasant. It all began when he alone held over a note two beats that was staccato for the rest of the chorus. Woody looked up; Vag joined the others in looking around and leered scornfully at the innocent man sitting next to him, then resumed singing. This time he would pay attention to the music, he thought. What was he singing for if he kept thinking about other things? After all, the "Missa Solemnis...
...dingy, impertinent, little trains chug in every few minutes and, before they have even skated to a halt, begin to spew forth a few score commuters who flash past him on staccato high heels or solemn, rubber-heeled oxfords. Cogs in the Hub's vast commercial machine, muses the Vagabond, as he lolls against a post. Each one intent only on getting to his or her job on time so that, when the man at the top of the heap pushes the button, all the units can awake into smooth action simultaneously. Vag watches them as he fumbles...
...other jobs, such as Vice President, Senator or Cabinet member, bring greater kudos. He would be a dull New York mayor indeed who did not tour the U. S. to give voters outside of New York a chance to look him over. No dullard is the incumbent, stumpy, staccato, hard-working New Deal Republican Fiorello ("Little Flower") Henry LaGuardia. He is also a good friend of Franklin Roosevelt who has announced that there is a place for Liberal Republicans in his future plans for the nation. Last week Mayor LaGuardia was in the midst of a transcontinental tour after which...