Word: screaming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last few years the Nanking Government has paid a subsidy to the rival Canton Government which has always taken the money while pulsating with opposition-now secret, now blatant-to Generalissimo Chiang. Last week Canton's blatancy became a scream as her Government, headed by General Chen Chi-tang, who had just received an especially large subsidy in the hope of squaring him, telegraphed to Nanking a demand that the Generalissimo resign...
...right ear, which he had cut off, wrapped up with clumsy neatness. Gauguin left, and soon after the Mayor ordered van Gogh locked up in the insane ward of the hospital. After that there was no telling when the mad fit would seize him, and he would scream till his throat was inflamed. At the asylum at Saint-Remy they let him paint, off & on, eventually released him in care of a doctor, nearer Paris and Theo. But the doctor, an art connoisseur, enraged van Gogh by his cavalier treatment of artists whom his patient revered. One day he terrified...
...what Adolf Hitler may do next, statesmen of all countries neighboring Germany were jangle-nerved last week, but Denmark's hulking pacifist Premier, auburn-bearded, cigar-rolling Thorvald Stauning, was absolutely frantic. Three years ago his Cabinet took the somewhat feminine position that Denmark, if attacked, had better scream for help rather than fight. Announced plump and placid Defense Minister Lauritz Rasmussen...
Murder at the Vanities (by Earl Carroll & Rufus King; music & lyrics by Edward Heyman & Richard Myers). During a matinee of the eleventh edition of the celebrated Vanities, a chorus girl abruptly stops kicking her neat legs and begins to scream. In the orchestra pit the music dwindles discordantly to silence. Directors and managers rush out to investigate. Cause of the disturbance is a pretty girl who, cradled on a rack of scenery pipes, is soon let down on the stage and found to be dead. Although attired in one of the production's costumes, she does not belong...
...vaudeville duo singing "It's Wonderful, It's Marvelous." Suddenly Mrs. Campbell turns from her formidably charming self into something strange and pretentious reciting Hecuba's speech from Euripides' The Trojan Women, then a fable about a mermaid. A girl sings some songs. The guests scream interminably for more...