Word: shriek
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John Zimmer, of the Field Museum, Chicago, brought home from the Amazon Valley a rare nocturnal bird called by the natives " alma perdida," or lost soul, owing to its unearthly shriek. It is mottled gray and resembles the whippoorwill...
...whirlwind casts of Lisa and Shuffle Along were caught, white-washed and turned loose again, they might give some idea of the pace of Go-Go. No white chorus ever went quite so fast before. There is a blare of trombones, a rattle of traps, a shriek of voices. For a while the audience holds its hand to its fevered brow, blinks agitatedly a few times, watches a few scenes fly by, shudders at a few clearly indicated jokes, and then it all seems to be over. The pace is terrifying...
...youth" does not let him rest content until he has gone far afield in search of new Molochs. And the blushing maiden, too, is not satisfied until she has set on a pedestal an idol, at which she may gaze with fond adoration. A Farrar, who made the flappers shriek with grief as she bade them adieu from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House, or a passionate twentieth century Valentine, who makes his audience stare with awe as he wrecks the lives of tearful cinema ladies, may easily become, the objects of feminine idolatry...
...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...