Word: screaming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intruder twisted Rosa Ricchebuono's arm, forced her against a wall, tried to throw her on the bed. She tried to scream. The man, a policeman from the Vice Squad, clapped his hand over her mouth and snapped: "Keep quiet. You're under arrest.'" Excited neighbors buzzed about as other police arrived, dragged Mrs. Ricchebuono to the station house on a charge of prostitution. For two days and nights Mrs. Ricchebuono was locked up while Bernard scurried around, trying frantically but futilely to raise $500 bail. Meanwhile a probation officer had investigated the case, found no evidence...
...many a U. S. paper. Some Abe Martinisms: "We often wonder if anybuddy ever bought new shoe strings before th' ole ones busted? . . . Wouldn't this be a dandy world if we could all stand discouragement like a reformer? . . 'I heard a shot and a scream in the hall but wuz jest listenin' in on Amos & Andy and thought no more of it,' testified Mrs. Tilford Moots' brother, questioned in regard to the murder of his wife." Born into a newspaper family (his brother and sister, Horace K. and Ada A. Hubbard, publish...
...Bill Robinson, famed Negro tap-dancer, was leaving a Pittsburgh hotel, he heard a woman scream that she had been robbed. Dancer Robinson gave chase to the fleeing thief, fired into the air with a small gold-plated revolver (gift of New York's police department). A policeman heard the report, did not see the thief, did see Robinson running, fired at and wounded him in the arm. The thief escaped. At the hospital Robinson complimented the policeman on his alertness...
...life. Women get no joy out of marriage. Maturity and middle age mean constant debt and hard work. "Above the 35-year-olds comes a divided group?the failures still weak and dependent, and the successes who dare again to indulge in the violence of childhood, who stamp and scream at their debtors, and give way to uncontrolled hysterical rage when crossed...
...officeholder ever made the eagle scream louder than does Publisher Hearst in his recurrent calls to arms against the "yellow peril" of Japan, the "dominance" of Britain, the "venality" of France. Thoughtful Japanese regard Publisher Hearst with curious interest as another U. S. phenomenon to be studied and, if possible, comprehended. Britons talk among themselves of his "Anglophobia" but welcome him to their country where at Lincolnshire and Glamorgan, Wales, he maintains vast castles. This strategy of "soothing down" was brilliantly executed last year by Britain's great irrepressible Conservative, Winston Spencer Churchill, when Hearst Anglophobia was approaching...