Word: falsetto
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While shag-hatted guardsmen .Changed Guard as though nothing were happening -drums rolling, band blaring, officers piping in loud falsetto-the surgeons and doctors worked. Half an hour later the Prince of Wales left, smiling. The operation was successful...
...screamed the other in a high falsetto, "because you are a Bolshevik...
...Feminine falsetto and masculine might of lung now join in a great volume of incoherent sound at the commands of gentlemen with flannel trousers and megaphones and the play wrights and the moving pictures consider the Rah-rah as the regular undergraduate greeting. Forty years ago these cheers were objects of interest to collegians, who now take them as part of the game, along with girls, flasks, and hard stone seats. In the CRIMSON of December 20, 1886, there appears an excerpt from the "Yale Daily News", commenting on cheers and cheering in the old days, and deploring some...
...castration. In that the procreative testes are cut off entirely. Nothing remains to create the sex hormones. So the individual, the eunuch, grows into a being that lacks the male secondary characteristics. Queer pads of fat develop. His hips enlarge. So too his breasts. His voice becomes a squeaky falsetto; his facial hair missing or very scant. His character is cold, emotionless, qualmless; his intelligence calculating, keen, subtle. He is not a man. He is not a woman. He is an intermediate animal...
...Quiet ladies took the ejaculation seriously, echoing it with a "Good gracious" or a "Mercy me." Metropolitan wags relapsed into the facetious falsetto with which they retail remarks that appeal to them as effeminate. Honest men stared, read under the headline an article which informed them that "Oh, Dear" was the actual name of the Prince's horse. These men had a curt criticism of the headline writer's awkward and flippant line. "Stupid," they said...