Word: screams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worth of steel and concrete forts are "fence-posts," not a chain. This week a horde of French and Moroccan troops is stringing the fence between the posts digging trenches from fort to fort, stringing barbed wire, testing sirens which at the approach of Germans, would scream so loudly that French villagers could hear them for a distance of seven miles and start to evacuate...
...respectable quiet of East Side Cleveland one night last week an old man ate poisoned mushrooms, died in wriggling agony. A merchant was smothered with a bed pillow and his corpse dragged into a cellar. A prostitute let out a blood-chilling scream as she was pushed to her death in an icy black lake. Yet as the heroine of Dmitri Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mzensk (pronounced Muhzjensk), the woman responsible for these three atrocious murders was really a gentle soul whom only the sternest moralist would blame for her crimes...
...Utica, Mabel Rose, 42, while walking along the street in the early morning, after drinking cheap liquor, suddenly became dizzy and partially blind. In a hospital she died in agony. Victor Peterson, 43, liquor seller, interrupted police questioning to scream, "I have pains in my back." and to die forthwith...
...organizations that advocate violent overthrow of the existing government unlawful. An told that the San Simson Scion is going to have his newspapers back the little project. Watch all the leftists howl like the devil. They, who kick at the Supreme Court's power of judicial review will scream for it if this little tid-bit is passed. Your correspondent agrees with them heartily, but is inclined to smile at their feminine inconsistency. "There in lies their charm," we suppose...
...Toronto, Ontario, small Frank Williams toppled from his perch atop a ski-jump under repair, began an Soft, fall with a scream. Perched on a plank 15 ft. below, big Herman Bautzman heard the scream, stretched an arm, yanked small Frank Williams from the air and death...