Word: shriek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which slips imperceptibly into the horrors of his sleep. These and other apocalyptic afflictions he describes this week in Faith for Living, 333 pages as hortatory as Isaiah, as alarming as The Book of Revelation. But by implying that every right-feeling man these days must awake with a shriek and a shiver in the dead of night to find himself surrounded by phantom parachutists, he somewhat alienates sympathy for his case...
...clearer things became to him, the louder Author Mumford screamed; the louder he screamed, the more he was po litely disregarded and the more isolated he felt; the more isolated he felt, the louder he screamed. Faith for Living is his most piercing shriek to date. The book suggests that Author Mumford has been practically overrun by Nazis already and the U. S. will get its turn in a few minutes. To thwart this fate, Author Mumford urges total moral regeneration for U. S. liberals. His program embraces three main points: 1) restoration of the family; 2) re-establishment...
Behind this sudden concern for world events there are sound economic reasons. When the shooting began last fall in Europe, Hollywood uttered a piercing shriek over the decrease in its foreign revenues. Most of the belligerents forbade the export abroad of box-office receipts, but they went on piling up in the form of credits. Now Hitler is making it look as if these credits too might disappear. Result: the most frantic retrenchment in Hollywood history...
Word has slithered in that a vile shindig is to be held this Friday; that immoral pastimes such as the dance shall be indulged in; that wild revelry shall shriek through hallowed halls until the first vestiges of dawn. In other words, in an effort to laugh down the sinister smirk of finals, Leverett House is throwing a dance. For some trivial sum, you will be able to prance and dance to the music of Kent Bartlett and watch a smooth, suave exhibition of what should be (but ain't) done on the dance floor...
...snatch of a CBS broadcast that night by Newscaster Edwin C. Hill, a lurid, present-tense yarn of the long-past sinking of the Republic in 1909 - first major sea disaster in which radio was used as a distress signal: "Fog is all about . . . impenetrable murk . . . hysterical shriek . . . crash and grinding . . . frightening darkness . . . shouts and screams . . . women and children aboard ... C Q D ... C Q D*. ..." As Captain Brown recalled whatever he did hear, "they seemed terribly excited. . . . It made me sick to my stomach...