Word: streamingly
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Chief asset of the machine is the speed with which it works, enabling police to tell within seven minutes whether a person has too much alcohol in his blood stream to operate a car safely...
...German theatre and an employment agency for destitute German-Americans, have several vigorous spats with her family, and plan a series of articles on hotel prostitution. There is just too much material; intead of building the impression of a continuing development of experience and understanding, it intrudes a confused stream of sights, sounds, smells, and feelings...
...other demand is that we accept the first-person narrative as being the heroine's actual stream of consciousness. Mr. Morton has a naturally florid style, and his exploitation of the descriptive powers of the English language leads him into a gaudiness of analogy and description which is especially ill-adapted to hectic first-person narration. ("It was a terrifying thing, a pale apple-green cloud, like a carbuncle in the anthracite...
...sweet it was when the fingertips were young and the touched breast, too, was young." But the girl is English and wealthy as well, and before the two fall fairly in love, her father's gamekeeper trounces Ches and Finn for gaffing salmon in a shallow stream on the family estate...
...Mass. On those occasions when he noticed his own whims, he liked to embellish them with wit. A man who saw him chasing his hat through a stream of traffic joined in, caught the hat and returned it to G.K.-who promptly assured him that it should never have been rescued at all. "Then why on earth did you run after it?" "It's an old friend," G.K. explained. "I am fond of it, and I wanted to be with...