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Word: screaming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mighty shake the bull tossed the weapon high into the air. It hurtled down, point first, to pierce the breast of one Candido Roig Roura, who at 4 o'clock that afternoon had been standing in line to buy a fifth row seat in the shade. With a scream Candido Roig Roura pulled the espada from his chest and hurled it away. It landed in the lap of a sports reporter busily writing at the barrier, cut both his legs to the bone. Before Candido Roig Roura died, the great Belmonte had taken another sword from his mozo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Double Play | 8/20/1934 | See Source »

...dark hall of her house, a peace-offering of fine yellow daffodils in his hand. A gun spat a bullet. Young Vito turned slowly in surprise, walked a block before he showed his wound to a policeman. At the other end of the block Angelina's hysterical scream attracted the policeman. Hugged to her breast was a bunch of fine yellow daffodils, flecked with young Vito's blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Fashion in Funerals | 7/2/1934 | See Source »

Trudging home last week through a cool birch forest, peasants of the Polish town of Ciechanow heard for the eighth time a horrible sound-the agonized scream of a little girl. Seven times in the past three weeks little girls, all between 3 and 6, had been found in meadows and clumps of forest stabbed in the stomach and bleeding badly. A horrid boy, they said, who grunted like an animal had attacked them with a knife, sucked their blood and disappeared. Two of the little girls bled to death before they could be hospitalized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Vampire | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

...bloodcurdling picture both Dracula's Bela Lugosi and Frankenstein's Boris Karloff have been thrown together that two monsters are better than one does not work out in this instance. Displaying a remarkable lack of originality in terrorizing devices and effects, the picture is hardly one to make children scream and women faint. Even more important, the plot is so complicated and incoherent that all sense of sustained terrifying suspense is virtually lost. Two such master-monsters as Lugosi and Karloff deserve a better vehicle than "The Black Cat" when they meet to match wits...

Author: By R. O. B., | Title: "BLACK CAT"--Keith's Memorial | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

...recalls-who only survived his school days by his gift for adroit ducking. This talent he uses to good effect one evening when tipsy Speed, world's middleweight champion, and his trainer simultaneously swing on him, miss and knock each other out. Misinformed, newspaper headlines next day scream that unknown Burleigh 'Sullivan has thrashed the champion. To save Speed's reputation, Burleigh is persuaded by Speed's manager to abandon his beloved milk route, become a fighter himself so that Speed may eventually demolish him in public and vindicate his prowess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 21, 1934 | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

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