Word: screaming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only one waitress did not scream. Her name was Minerva, and she was a nice waitress. It was a mouse in the Eliot House Dining Room, yes, a real wild mouse. No one knew what to do. One suggested that the Head Tutor be called. Another thought the animal ought to be done away with. He was cruel. In the meantime one of those men waiters who wear white coats and carry the really heavy dishes tried to grab the little mouse. But the mouse was under a table where a man from O entry was sitting. The man waiter...
...Bucharest last week everyone was in terror of the Iron Guard. Had not a blue-swastikaed youth assassinated Premier Ion Duca (TIME, Jan. 8)? Had not another youngster burst in upon the Public Prosecutor as he was eating breakfast to scream: "I was an accomplice in Duca's assassination. Arrest me! Do your worst. Christ and Rumania!"? All Bucharest believed last week that the "Death List" of prominent Rumanians marked for assassination by the 200 terrorists of the Iron Guard was headed by M. Titulescu with Premier Tatarescu about half way down. It was a terrible time for Rumania...
ninety miles an hour When his whistle broke into a scream He was found in the wreck with...
...history, and yet we are [skeptical of] science, ideas and knowledge. Men have long since cast off God. To what can we now appeal? "The answer comes in the undiluted animalism of the last works of D. H. Lawrence, in the emotionalism of demagogs, in Hitler's scream, 'We think with our blood.' Satisfied that we have, weighed reason and found it wanting, we now turn to passion." Dr. Hutchins' remedy: Let Science stick to fundamentals and let the universities base their principles on "fixed and immutable ideas." inculcating the young with pure ."intellectual virtues...
...samples of Southern womanhood. Since her last stage appearance, in The Affairs of Anatol, she has played in a dozen cinemas, notably The Smiling Lieutenant, Trouble in Paradise, Design for Living. Still rated by many as one of the cinema's most blood-curdling sound effects was her scream when, as Temple Drake, she was about to be raped in a barn stall...