Word: shriek
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact of the matter is that whenever a sufficient number of persons ally themselves for whatever purpose, there are always hundreds of other people ready to shriek fire, murder, and sudden death at the very mention of so dangerous an affiliation. As usual neither fire, murder, nor sudden death has descended. Instead of a great group dominating the country and its politics, we find that the bloc is merely a comparatively small number of representatives of agricultural districts trying to lighten the very numerous trials and tribulations of the farmer by voting as a unit on agricultural questions. The Farm...
...foregoing must cause the ghosts of the old showmen to shriek with envy. How the owner of the "Great Monohippic Show," would have loved that writer. It is hard to believe that such an art nearly perished. If the motion pictures can really bring it back, then, whatever the cost, we demand the motion pictures...