Word: screaming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bite. They lifted Julius into the machine. Trembling with mute terror he clung to his mother, who also trembled while they put a stout strap about the boy's waist and fastened it securely to the plane seat. They put double straps about his arms. He tried to scream. He strained at his fastenings, but could only force his hands slightly upward...
Ella Randolph soon began to scream and succeeded after several minutes in attracting the attention of a crowd of taxi drivers lined up at the curb below. Obeying her instructions, these piled the cushions from their cars directly under the inverted head of Horace Poor. Policemen visited a nearby hotel whence they secured a blanket; this they stretched under Horace Poor, above the pillows and cushions. With a tremulous cry, Nurse Randolph released her banker; he sped down for an instant, plunged through the blanket and lay, panting and lolling, on the cushions...
...another tiger pounced upon her and lay on top of her biting the woman with their yellow teeth and slapping her with huge limber paws that left two-inch grooves on her arms and bloody ruts across her face. Almost before the people in the audience had time to scream, the lion tamer came over from the next ring and rescued the lady from the tigers...
...telephoned tempestuously last week to Rome. Austrian students, he cried, had just wrenched down the flag of Italy from its staff before his window. The vandals! The Austrian swine! They were tearing the tricolor to tatters, spitting on it, fouling it -the voice of helpless Consul Riccardi became a scream. At Rome, according to authoritative reports, Signer Mussolini himself took up his telephone and put searching questions to excited Consul Riccardi. Meanwhile the police of Innsbruck, clubbing right and left, had scattered the mob of flag snatchers after arresting eight. The snatchers, it appeared, were patriotically incensed because...
...Lecture Hall between 7 and 8 o'clock tonight and enroll as delegates in the mock convention being held by the Harvard Democratic Club. They will find awaiting them all the thrills of the Madison Square gathering of 1924. In collegiate miniature: speeches which let the eagle scream, parading delegates, contested votes, songs and flags and pictures of famous Democrats. If the convention follows the two models upon which it is based the regular Democratic. Convention and the mock convention held at Harvard four years ago there will be both humor and excitement in abundance...