Word: shriek
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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ROPE'S END?This contains the season's best shriek...
Crowded streets echo "We want war!" Six thousand youths parade and shriek "Death to the enemy!" The Government incarnate, the very front of the people's Jove, places its hand in its waistcoat and replies patriotically "If war is necessary we will...
...stupid play relating apparently the trite story of a backstage Don Juan; actually its purpose was to exploit, not study, homosexualism in its most blatant form. A party was given on the stage by one pervert for his fellows; here Mae West provided her actors with shrill obscenities to shriek. The audience, more prurient even than the playwright, found these interludes funny or exciting; they laughed with weird crescendoes...
...radio was going. Shortly after the monstrous voice of John L. McNab was heard, at about eight o'clock, the radio sounded as if it had broken. It began to roar, hum, shriek, blare, clatter. The Beaver Man's name had been placed before the convention...
...Vienna telephone of Herr Richard Strauss, 62. famed eccentric composer, rang an odd hundred times last week, each time to shriek at him a message more bewildering than the last...