Word: repeatability
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...been despised by the Royal Academy. Year ago Caricaturist George Belcher, who stalks about Chelsea in a large black hat and satin stock and who prefers char ladies and costermongers for models, made headlines at the Academy with a portrait of a fat man playing a cornet. Quick to repeat a good thing, he sent two similar portraits to this year's Burlington House. Best was Brother Fetch, a London commissionaire in full regalia of the Order of Buffaloes, elegantly curling his buffalo horn mustachios and elegantly grasping a white kid glove and a pint of bitters...
...follow my few primitive rules. As a "locus operandi" take, for instance, the Charles: an excellent feeding ground. The first trick should be the undulation of the hand, the wink of the old eye, and a broad smile. If you walk the whole length of the bank and repeat these motions without any recognition, immediately change to the "information" method; approach a lass and ask her the whereabouts of Hunt Hall or the Union. That failing, borrow your roommate's car, a police whistle, and several companions and cruise along Memorial Drive, making as much turmoil as is legally possible...
...curly-haired urchin drops his threepenny Coronation mug. It breaks, he sobs for his mother. Kind bystanders give him much more than three pennies. Sniveling he moves away, into another street to repeat the racket...
...held Bilbao through a siege of 125 days in the Carlist War of 1874. What made their chances blackest was an almost total lack of airplanes to oppose the German bombers of General Franco. The massacre of Guernica was sharp in every mind. Should General Franco be advised to repeat that mass bombing of a civil population there would be no way of stopping him. Reconnoitering on the Basque Front, 18 Rightist planes became lost in fog, came down perforce in southern France. Allowing them to return, French authorities recorded officially for the first time how preponderant in Spanish skies...
...cause, if TIME must die, for the sake of all that's dramatic, kindly kill it with a sword. Let it not be lamented with wagging head that "TIME passed on" but give the mourners an opportunity to stand at attention and salute the last number while we repeat with pride: "TIME marches...