Word: shriekingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the fuel was gone, Captain Apt reported calmly on his radio: "The engine has cut out and I'm beginning to turn." After six seconds of silence he spoke an unintelligible word, almost a shriek. A few minutes later his battered body was found in the cockpit capsule, which had plunged to the desert far below...
...leading singer in Athens' National Opera Company became ill. Maria was invited to take over the role of Tosca on 24 hours' notice. Backstage before the show, she overheard a male voice saying: "That fat bitch will never carry it off." With a shriek of rage, she leaped at the speaker, tore his shirt and bloodied his nose. Maria sang that night with a puffy eye. But she got raves from Athens critics...
Hands were burned raw as Andrea Doria's passengers slid awkwardly down ropes into the bobbing boats under the tilted starboard rail. With a shriek, an elderly woman lost her unfamiliar grip and fell heavily into a boat, where she landed grotesquely and lay still. Children were tossed from the deck to the outstretched arms of seamen. An impatient woman climbed the rail, dropped into the sea and swam for the nearest boat. As the boats filled and pulled away, some evacuees helped pull the oars, some sat stunned and silent, some leaned miserably over the side...
...show could not go on. They are the coaches, managers, camp-followers, and newspaper writers. Perhaps of all these the manager has the most useful task, for he drives the launch, while the coach looks at an odd stop-watch and mutters, and the camp-followers just giggle or shriek, according to their personality...
...admixture of comedy and farce, which destroys utterly the few intelligent, sophisticated bits, probably can be blamed on the cast. Director John Gerstad has taken a salon comedy and turned it into a circus-tent shriek show. Practically every player, with the exception of Tom Helmore, the seductive, Northern journalist, over-acts...