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...waving, eye-rolling, scrabbling and thumping in the boiling vat, really doesn't feel a thing, since, after all, it is only a lobster. But last week the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals managed to suggest-without really saying so-that the lobster might screech with pain and horror at this treatment if only he were wired for sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Lobsterclde Made Easy | 7/14/1952 | See Source »

...barber, he uses a chamberpot for a shaving mug; on a rocket to the moon, he nuzzles a blonde stowaway; as a TV repairman, he pulls a battered corset from a TV set, crying: "Your condenser is weak!" Best example of Colonna's Klaxon charm: his screech-voiced assault on the popular song, My Heart Cries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The New Shows | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

...Sorter is easily upset by the weather. If the air is dry, operations may suddenly close down with a screech when a card jams; wet weather can produce the same noisy result. The others are better behaved. When something goes wrong with the Collator, it automatically stops and politely flashes little red lights...

Author: By Samuel B. Potter, | Title: Circling the Square | 4/14/1951 | See Source »

Like song of a thrush or screech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 1, 1951 | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

...very angry golden eagle named Sergeant, an albino cardinal, a mourning dove, two red-winged blackbirds and a raucous blue jay with a broken wing. Menaboni makes pets of many birds; ducklings have swum in his bathtub, bobwhites have made themselves at home in his living room and a screech owl has perched on his easel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Audubon's Heir | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

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