Word: screaming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Atlantic in its immense indifference was not aware that man-made cables on its slimy bottom contained news, that the silent heavens above pulsed with news- news that would set thousands of printing presses in motion, news that would make sirens scream in every U. S. city, news that would cause housewives to run out into backyards and shout to their children: "Lindbergh is in Paris...
Revere Beach has opened, and once more where the white loops of the roller coasters loar and twist against the blue carloads of well be haved citizens scream like wild-cats as they approach the appalling drop. This year, nestled among the milder attractions of hot dog stands and cherry-go-rounds, there is a new side show: for a nominal sum one may throw baseballs at a wooden door surmounting a small sliding board, and if one strikes the bullseye in the center of the door it pops open, a bell rings, a young lady in a bathing suit...
...doing his flat and level best not to get funny. Chapter Six begins: "It was at a petting party in the Whits House that I first met Jane Austen." He took her to see Gov. Al ("Peaches") Smith, who complimented her: "I thought The Green Hat was a scream...
...tong leader keeps in his saffron incensed chambers. In and out pattered the waiters. Then a strange Chinaman swung through the door. He fired two shots into Li Poy's bent back. Poy pitched forward and his face sank like a yellow teacup into the brown dishwater. A scream drowned in the water which had given him livelihood...
...Harvard 5, where Dr. Hornbeck is giving another of his splendid lectures on China. His subject will be "China: The Tarping Rebellion and Maritime Custom Administration" The significance of these lectures in History 18 need scarcely be pointed out, when the headlines of every morning paper scream out stories of the struggles in modern China, which had their origin in the history of yesterday...