Word: scream
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suppose he had written up this one: "A student at a village theological school was learning Latin by heart. Every half-hour he runs down to the maids' room and, closing his eyes, feels and pinches them; they scream and giggle; he returns to his book again. He calls it 'refreshing oneself...
Fast Friends. In Toronto, the University of Toronto newspaper reported a local shocker: the parents of a teen-age girl, eavesdropping on daughter's goodnight to her beau, came a-running downstairs when they heard her scream, discovered that the young lovers had got their dental braces tangled...
...write for your own amusement, you can be as dismal as you choose, but the public continues to prefer entertainment to morbidity . . . I often feel that if I come across one more trauma or psycho-analyst's couch in a manuscript, I will become a manic-depressive and scream...
Engagements on the mainland followed. San Francisco thought Hattie was a scream; so did the patrons of Manhattan's sophisticated St. Regis Hotel. During the war, Hattie acted with Jinx Falkenberg and Betty Grable in a couple of sarong-draped movies. In the U.S., she also made some recordings and discarded her third husband (she is currently unmarried). Last year, between mainland triumphs, she went home and took to the air. With a disc jockey program on Honolulu's KPOA and an amateur hour on rival station KGMB, she registered her first solid hit with the natives...
...Communists in the National Assembly faced a dangerous situation last week and handled it admirably. The proceedings, however, were not dignified. The "Cocos" have had a lot of breath knocked out of them lately, but they always have enough left to scream insults...