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Neither book will win its author or co-authors fame. "The Corpse in the Constable's Garden" is mild to the point of blandness and while "The Westminster Mystery" is more adapted to the taste of crime blood-hounds and includes bits of staccato action, it will not overly enthrall the connoisseur...

Author: By R. R., | Title: BOOKENDS | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

...March of Time." My radio fan-age began 'way back in 1911- when only the staccato chirp of the code could be transmitted. I remember building my first "coherer" set, using filings from the milled edges of a nickel and a quarter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 6, 1931 | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

...column is much like a miniature edition of the 15-minute news summary, in machine-gun stream of syllables, which Reporter Gibbons gave as a daily radio broadcast for The Literary Digest last spring. In an effort to recapture the breathlessness, the staccato note, of the Gibbons chatter, the Evening World separates the paragraphs with drawn lightning-flashes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Quien Vive? | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

Notable among princesses is Margaret Rose for the brevity of her name. Royalty, seldom satisfied with less than six names to roll sonorously over the tongues of ushers and court chamberlains, was startled at the staccato abruptness of Margaret Rose. Even so, Londoners wagered that it would soon become even shorter, that as Elizabeth Alexandra Mary has become "P'incess Lilybet" to the press, Margaret Rose would be Princess Madge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Princess Madge | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

Banging the rostrum as though to smash it, barking his words in thin staccato, turning from side to side and gesticulating so vigorously that his glasses seemed about to fall off, General Dawes delivered one of his best speeches in quite his best, slashing, he-American style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Blood, Curtseys & Mrs. Courtney | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

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