Word: shoutes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Subhuman Treatment. Concierges have had a few defenders. Frédéric-Dupont, a former independent Deputy for Paris, argued so eloquently for a bill freeing concierges from the cordon that when he rose to speak other Deputies would shout the traditional cry: "Cordon, s'il vous plaít!" His bill was passed in 1957, and most doors are now opened by an electrical release in the tenant's own apartment...
Long Eclipse. The Count is more loved than admired by his immense audience, and at Basin Street East, his fans were strictly of the ilk that whistle, stamp their feet and shout, "Yeah, Count!" Basie was at his amiable best, beaming proudly at his players from the piano, even playing fun-and-games accompaniments to Singer Keely Smith...
...country, one of Mrozek's imaginary commentators comes on a much vaunted new telegraph line. But it turns out that the poles have been stolen and the wires were never delivered. Officials, however, have replaced them with a "more modern" system-men stationed every 100 yards to shout the messages. "There is no storm damage to repair," a local man proudly explains. "And the postmaster has gone to Warsaw to ask for megaphones."' Then comes a shouted message. "Father dead. Funeral Wednesday...
...only guard was drinking at a nearby tavern when Booth struck. While the audience cheered and hooted over a slapstick line in the play ("Well, I guess I know enough to turn you inside out, old gal-you sockdologizimg old mantrap"), Booth slipped into the box. With a shout of "Sic semper tyrannis! [Thus always to tyrants!] " he fired a shot from his derringer into the back of Lincoln's head. He slashed his way past Lincoln's companion leaped ten feet to the stage and, with a broken shinbone' hurtled himself past startled stagehands and into...
...most dramatic test of the new navigator last week, a sailor-sized, life-jacketed dummy nicknamed "Oscar" was pitched off the stern. At the shout "Man overboard!", the lieutenant in the hold marked the chart and began barking commands. When the red line had curved back on itself, there was Oscar, 10 yds. to port, in more danger of being run down than drowned...