Word: shrieked
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...Warner Bros, lot in Burbank one day last week, actors, stagehands and other employees were eating lunch when they heard the shriek of fire sirens. Rushing from the studio commissary, they could see a wind-whipped blaze spreading from an outdoor reproduction of a Manhattan street. As the fire leaped, it engulfed Studio 21, Warner's biggest sound stage (120 ft. wide, 320 ft. long, seven stories high...
...tech girl, on the other hand, is usually busier. She has to "ride the gain", seeing that the meter on the control board doesn't coast up into the red area which means that listeners are hearing an unpleasant shrill shriek instead of music. And between shows, when very often one theme has to be faded down, another theme faded up and down, and the first record for a show started all within about two minutes, the tech girl often wishes she bad three arms. The tech girl also has to "cue" a record, seeing that it starts...
...ground noise of a jet engine is actually about the same as or even less than that from a piston-driven plane of equal horsepower. A jet just seems louder because it travels faster and its noise strikes the ear more abruptly. Also, said G.E., the shriek of a jet is a comparatively new sound and thus attracts more attention...
Hitler, who "had no love for foreign newsmen," was not quite so cordial. Visiting Berchtesgaden in 1932, Kaltenborn's prodding on anti-Semitism ("I purposely irritated him with my first question") provoked the Führer to shriek: " 'Who are you to talk about who should be allowed in Germany?' " Kaltenborn says that "got us off on the tone which dominated the entire interview...
Bernard Shaw, convalescing nicely from his broken left thigh bone, had, as usual, plenty of other things to complain about. Once a doctor heard him shriek "Stop her," rushed in to find the white bearded playwright on his stomach with a nurse rubbing oil into his skin. "But Mr. Shaw," the doctor said, "she's only doing that to keep you from getting bed sores. It's nothing at all." "Nothing at all?" howled Shaw. "Who's bottom is she playing with anyway...