Word: screaming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hall and the telephonic improprieties of the bachelor below? Steel girders, plaster and cement can muffle but never quite extinguish sound; but last week a scientist came forward with the statement that noise can be kept out of a room just as well as a snowstorm can; that a scream can be locked up. He, Dr. Paul Heyl, Chief of the U. S. sound laboratory (Bureau of Standards), has invented a soundproof partition, which he demonstrated in Washington. On a night when two dances were being given in the Mayflower Hotel-a charity ball in one ballroom and a party...
Miss Foster plays a gypsy miss who falls in love with a young man in a clean shirt and plus fours. Her hook-nosed grandmother fulminates gutterally against her marrying an effete outsider, and his parents kick and scream at the conception of a lady tramp entering their highly starched family. Matters are further mangled by a gypsy lover, who hopes to solve the situation by poking a knife through the breast pocket of the intruding clean shirt...
That fiery apostle of American literary independence, Mr. H. L. (never Henry Louis!) Mencken, is at it again. He joins battle this time with Hugh Walpole in an open letter in the December Bookman in defense of what the Englishman had described in the November issue as "a scream and a yell on your part because of the agonozing decadence of contemporary English literature...
...Manhattan, a foot-passenger in a vacant street (for it was earliest morning) heard a scream from a shuttered birdshop, and peered in to see fire strutting and pecking there like a great red cock while 200 canaries fluttered on the shelves, dogs pawed their wire stalls, and in the window a Brazil ian parrot cried out over and over in the terrible voice of a man unnerved by fear. Firemen broke down the door, took out the dogs, some alive, some dead; the 200 gay canaries, all dead; the parrot, dead...
Still the men in the cab and coal car are oblivious. The warning whistle stops. There is a scream of airbrakes all along the train, an unseen hand shuts the steam throttle, the express comes to a grinding, jolting halt. The life it carries is safe. The conductor, trotting beside the ties to investigate, thanks his stars that the Chicago & Northwestern Railway installed its new automatic train control along that particular stretch of track...