Even if this puzzle had Nailed It, conceptually, managing to turn ordinary phrases into phrases that sound like a Bostonian was saying them, it would've been corny and old hat. The fact that this saw the light of day indicates that Sunday submissions must be at dire, emergency levels. This is the most ill-conceived, DOA Sunday theme I can remember seeing. A few say she invented the aulos or double-flute, though most mythographers credit Marsyas with its invention. In late Classical times she was named muse of lyric poetry and depicted holding a flute. Called the "Giver of delight", when later poets assigned roles to each of the Muses, she was the muse of music. In Greek mythology, Euterpe ( / juː ˈ t ɜːr p iː/ Greek: Eὐτέρπη, Greek pronunciation:, Ancient Greek: "rejoicing well" or "delight" from Ancient Greek εὖ 'well' + τέρπειν terpein 'to please') was one of the Muses, the daughters of Mnemosyne, fathered by Zeus. Word of the Day: EUTERPE ( 38D: Sister of Erato).
PASSING MOCK (69A: Ridicule shouted out of a moving car?).THE BOD OF AVON (51A: Most in-shape person at a cosmetics company?).HOT SPECIALIST (36A: Weather forecaster in Phoenix?).A CALL TO OMS (24A: Yoga teacher's invitation?) (oy, see below).SPOCK PLUGS (22A: Commercials for a "Star Trek" movie?) (why "movie"?).I think there's some attempt to make wacky phrases based on the idea of a "New England" accent, but mainly there appear to be simply a dropping of Rs (?). The effort sucked oxygen from its blood, and by the time it reached the first crossbeam the alarums in its brain were urgent.THEME: "New England Chatter" - I have no *&$%ing idea what is happening. It staggered toward the door, trailing a smear of slime, beginning to feel the first alarums from its brain, demanding oxygen. Murder most foul, alarums and excursions, theft, buggery, barratry, incomplete perfusion! They had manned them both, and planted their ordinance for that present, and sudden alarum vvithout the gate, and also some troopes of small shot in Ambuscado vpon the hievvay side. The alarum bell now rung out the signal to that part of theclan without the walls, and they immediately poured upon the enemy, who, confounded by this unexpected attack, had scarcely time to defend themselves. Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. If Death to Vermin - or their stooges - had spotted them, a simple alarum would have served.ĭrums, strike alarum, raise them from their sport, And ring aloud the knell of Gaveston!Ĭan you sniff around for alarum glamours, sentinels, booby-traps, that kind of thing?Īnd immediately after her prayer breaks forth, soars upward in a shrill nasal falsetto, like a morning alarum when the hour for waking has come, the mechanical noise of a spring let go and running down.
The cannon-fire was not followed by the alarum bells, so they knew Bluto was just sending a few balls arcing through the night to remind the Turks he was there.Īfter several seconds another sound cut through the rain: the strident clangor of the alarum bells in the tower of St. Unfortunately, sleep had conquered her before your departure, and she only woke when the alarum struck, too late to detain you, for you had rushed with the haste of a man who is flying from some terrible danger. These delightful labours occupied the remainder of the night until the alarum warned us that it was time to part. I observed with pleasure that the clock in the alcove had an alarum, for I was beginning, in spite of love, to be easily influenced by the power of sleep.
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