Word: hissing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...looked ugly. Two Navy seaplanes, flying so high they looked like a pair of mating canvas backs, hummed over the reedy bays, bound for Hampton Roads from Philadelphia. Off New Point Comfort they slanted down. The sky was scowling, muttering. Angry lightnings flickered. The Bay began to hiss and crackle under a heavy downpour. The thunder raised its shouts to a cannonade...
...Play's The Thing?Dramatist Molnar and Actor Blinn conspire to laugh the hiss out of scandal...
...Alger Hiss of Baltimore, Maryland, received the Herbert Parker scholarship. This scholarship was established in 1924 in honor of Herbert Parker '78 and amounts to about $250. The two Class of 1913 scholarships go to Herman Thomas Anstern of New York City, and Jule Elias Stocker of Detroit, Michigan. The Faculty scholarship was awarded to Fredierick William Roy Pride of Portsmouth, Ohio...
...wind staggered about the Concord house, striking at doors, shaking shutters. By its sound you knew that it smelt of melting earth and sticky buds. Inside was a dingy, not unpleasant taint of coke burning in the Franklin grate, and a lingering fragrance of dinner . . . ticking clocks, the reptilian hiss of fire, and without, the scampering wind...
...court martial of Colonel William Mitchell for his charges against the War and Navy Departments proceeded for another week, the prosecution presenting rebuttal witnesses. One of them, R. G. Rath of Los Angeles, former Captain in the Air Service and decorated for bravery, drew hisses upon Colonel Mitchell's lawyer, Congressman Frank R. Reid. Rath declared in cross examination that anti-aircraft fire was effective; that Colonel Mitchell (then General) had during the War ordered flights under extremely adverse conditions; once had sent five flyers not experienced in night flying out on a mission which brought them home after...