Word: creaking
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Author Kenneth Fearing has tried to clamp a humanist allegory on a science-fiction frame. His real villain, the Industrial Revolution, is 200 years old, and his moral (Destroy the machine before the machine destroys you) has an antique creak. The author of that high-voltage thriller, The Big Clock, Fearing seems to have forgotten for the moment what time...
...remember when any general manager of the Met had won so jovial an accolade, finally gave up. After only nine weeks of his first season, Rudolf Bing looked like the best thing that had happened to the Met in many a day. Nobody expected Bing to take all the creaks out of the old place overnight, but he had already accomplished the near miracle of persuading his singers, his board of directors and his audiences that the Met was not doomed to creak forever along ways established back in the gaslight...
Westminster Abbey is a ghostly place by night. Timbers creak and pigeons and sparrows make fluttering noises high in the clerestory as the watchman makes his rounds...
...lynched in Irwington, Georgia during the night by a white mob which took him from a sheriff's house, part of which served as a jail. The 28-year-old-Negro, Calif Hill, Jr., was found badly beaten with bullet holes in the heart and neck, lying by a creak...
...Sunday Afternoon (Warner) is an old story with its face lifted for the third time.* At this point, it wears a starchy mask, and its smiles creak painfully. It is an idyl of the Gay Nineties, and the costumes have a bustley charm; but the girls who wear them are addicted to Technicolor simpers. The love stories of the two young couples (Dennis Morgan and Dorothy Malone, Don DeFore and Janis Paige) reach a high point when they go for a spin in the park in a horseless carriage-a singularly low-voltage form of sparking. Not much else happens...