Word: screaming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flags had marked blown up. They picked up tank mines, destroyed barricades, bridged rivers and bayous with pontons or spanned them with felled trees. When they had finished, Louisiana had more usable bridges than it had ever had before. All along the Blue front, fighting troops advanced to the scream of the engineers' power saws and the grunt of their powerful bulldozers...
...seconds the wardens had the streets clear. Soon, far and high, but nearer & nearer, came the drone of planes. Antiaircraft fire began to slam. Tearing down through the night sky, a far-off whistle rising hysterically into a splitting scream, came the first bombs. Soon the whole sky was screaming with bombs, while the city-target below bumped and shook in the bursts, and incendiary bombs spluttered...
This is not because "Arsenic and Old Lace" is a chiller-thriller where women scream faint; the wear and tear on one's constitution all occurs around you, laughing apparatus, and if you faint it's because you can't take the belly-agitation. Wliat Joseph Kesserling has written from a God-sent (or Perhaps Ghoul-sent) inspiration and how a perfect cast put it across are things we can't tell you and you'll just have to see it yourself. All we know is that a couple of half-cracked but very nice old maids serve...
Barbers in the Square are muttering about the discouragingly short crop of Freshman hair, while janitors in the Yard have pricked up their cars for the first adolescent scream of "Rhinehart!" to pierce the September...
Meanwhile in cities, where piles of scrap still blight city halls, mayors began to scream too. But McConnell, surveying the mess he did not make, was still remarkably optimistic. Allowing for baby carriages, he still hopes to get 8,400,000 Ib. of aluminum out of the 14,000,000 Ib. of scrap collected. Estimated Army, Navy, Lend-Lease and "essential" civilian requirements...