Word: screaming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secretly resigned and invoked a clause of the Constitution which permits the President to name his successor, naming the former Governor of Pomorze Province, a politically neutral lawyer, Wladislaw Raczkiewicz. At the Embassy the oath of office was solemnly administered to President Raczkiewicz, provoking the Nazi press to scream, "All this is a Polish farce...
...last week to let the world know that Poland's capital was still Polish. Hour after hour, day after day, the notes came like hope rising from an inferno. For the world also knew what other sounds filled Warsaw-the bellow of bombing planes in power dives, the scream of fighting planes on the attack, the sharp whanging of anti-aircraft guns, the mighty thump, boom and roar of half-ton bombs plowing up the city's remaining defenses. To the North, the continuous thunder of artillery made a background for the nearer hammering of defense guns...
...left intact most of its supposedly inflammatory scenes, including a pitched battle between strikers and strikebreakers bloodier than any yet seen in the newsreels, a citizens' meeting where a cynical employer (Gene Lockhart) diverts attention from his own misdeeds by an appeal to patriotism that makes the eagle scream. By last week no capitalist had made public protest. But because the picture (possibly in an attempt to avoid the susceptibilities of warring union factions) shows the workers unorganized and misled by an outside agitator, organized labor's box-office pressure group, Film Audiences for Democracy, was last week...
...Devonshire House, whose tyrant was slight, agile, wide-eyed, willful, 17-year-old Caroline Ponsonby. Her lisping voice cooed out words in "the Devonshire House drawl." Said a rival: "Lady Caroline baas like a little sheep." Caroline liked to gallop bareback, to dress in trousers. Sometimes she would scream and tear her clothes, kick the floor with her heels. But she was vivid, fitful, daring and held even outraged relatives spellbound...
...80th lap, in front of the grandstand, two cars traveling at 50 m.p.h. locked wheels. A third car, trying to avoid them, caromed into a fourth. Before the crowd could let out a collective scream, 19 cars had piled up (see cut). Eight of the drivers were rushed to a hospital. None died...