Word: shriekings
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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...
...regulations, neither cops nor drivers heed them, nor do the pedestrians, who jaywalk and ignore traffic lights with grim fatalism. There is an incessant blowing of horns, but since all the horns sound alike (apparently having been made in the same factory), the result is a constant and unidentifiable shriek, except for horns on the cars of commissars which have a slightly varied pitch, at the first murmur of which the cops switch the manually operated traffic lights to green. Says U.S. Travel Expert John Stanton, just back from surveying the possibility of Cook's touring through Russia...
...with almost all the best parts. "At night I dreamed about being a great star like Bernhardt," she says. Nor was Bernhardt enough in those days; she also intended to be Pavlova. Her family had taken her to the Ballet Russe. "When Eglevsky leaped, I used to shriek the way other little girls did at Sinatra...