Word: staccatos
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Accustomed to staccato sports-reporting by U. S. announcers, U. S. radio listeners rarely get such a chance to sample the discursive style of English sports announcers as they did last week in an account of a prizefight at Harringay Arena in London, broadcast by Announcer Howard Marshall. Excerpts...
Cook's professional astronomer, Dr. Orren Mohler, 28 (University of Michigan), in connection with a photoelectric Geiger-Miiller counter which records the ultraviolet radiation of distant stars by a series of staccato clicks...
...change in Dietrich was astounding, that which took place in von Sternberg, though less evident, is no less interesting. The girl whom he had turned in record time into a world celebrity had paradoxically trebled his own fame. She was a perfect Trilby for his staccato, 14-hour-a-day Svengali. Impatient of routine, abrupt with strangers and remote with studio officials, Dietrich would tolerate the most brutal type of public correction from von Sternberg. It was common enough for her to go through a scene 15 or 16 times before he was satisfied with it. None of this seemed...
Fiction WARD EIGHT-Joseph F. Dinneen- Harper ($2.) Story of the rise, reign and death of an Irish political boss in Boston, written in a jerky, staccato style. The author is a Boston newspaperman who is now being threatened with suit for libel by Massachusetts' Governor James M. Curley...
This year Hitler arrived physically exhausted from having returned Nazi salutes all morning. Nevertheless the Realmleader's weariness snapped off, his magnetism on when one of the correspondents mentioned "Marxism." Grey eyes blazing and harsh voice hammering out the words in a violent staccato, Adolf Hitler roared: "When I think that the metropolis which is trying to dominate Europe is Moscow-Moscow, Ha! Ha! Moscow of all cities-what a shame! How grotesque! The last city with a right to hegemony over cultivated nations is Moscow. If it were a Capital with traditions in a civilized country! But Moscow...