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...borrow an old definition, a parade is composed of one band, twelve hundred kaydets, and five thousand spectators. The band plays, the kaydets stand and gripe, and the spectators thrill and go home resolving to be 100 per cent Americans and vote the straight Republican tickets. Some kaydets enjoy parades--Graduation Parade, for instance, because it's the last one. But the average kaydet doesn't enjoy the average parade...
...your continued use of the obsolete term Tycoon. Why not replace it with Big Shot? Everyone knows what Big Shot means. It is more than slang-it is part of the American language. It would fit in with your telling and picturesque phrases. And even the Big Shots rather thrill at the term Big Shot. E. G. KYTE...
...tricks of shooting people through telephone receivers, kniving them by lynx-eyed orientals, or burning them with vats of green acid no longer provide their old thrill. Audiences yawn. The old stunt of indicating the degree of hauntedness of house by having a darky groan "Oh Lawdy, Lawdy" simply wore itself...
...again described as the "hardest" game he had ever participated in (TIME, Sept. 15). Even if you were unable to understand the strategy of a game that to the layman appears a game of imperfection, of constant trying and missing, two events of the afternoon afforded the sort of thrill that brings most people out to watch auto races...
...first national tournament, that there too he won his first amateur championship and that as the most multiple golf champion of all time he is the most awe-inspiring competitor a rising amateur can have in match play. Brilliant 2's at the short holes may thrill the galleries, dazzling birdies and eagles on long holes strengthen one's confidence. But down-in-four, down-in-four, down-in-four is a champion's march-beat. The problem for whoever wins at Merion is to keep that step all week...