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...will die on the appointed hour within plain sight (opera glasses permit a closer view of the performers' faces). The guns will sound very loud, but it is just a bit too far off to hear men scream as they get hit or hear them yell "sha sha" ("kill") as Chinese soldiers are supposed to do on the attack...
...Weighed with their gold, men sank like stone or struggled vainly, for a moment, in a tangle of baggage and bodies. Horses rolled from the embankment on top of them; while on either side of the breach the relentless canoes plied spears and clubs and arrows. A long-drawn scream rose from the water. . . . The causeway had become a solid writhing of agonized life fighting for itself...
Some of them, the ones I really can't take, tell you they are antiFascist. They stand up in a drawing room with a drink in their mitts in front of a nice big fireplace and scream out their speeches against what is wrong. Or after a big buffet supper they are upset because our fellows didn't have such a good day at the front. But these same speechmakers can't find time to come over, or they never find the time to drop a line each week or send a food box to cheer...
...Brawley, Calif., 3,500 citizens jammed onto the high-school athletic field for an anti-Japanese mass meeting, listened to an orator scream: "Do you want these yellow-bellied sneaks to return to Brawley?" The crowd roared...
...night Hugo was entertaining the Duke of Hoven in his Virginia mansion. A dreadful scream rang out. A Negro child had been devoured by a monstrous fox. Nothing remained but a few bones, a pigtail, a pathetic scrap of petticoat. Hugo, Dev and the Duke leapt into the saddle, galloped madly after the fleeing...