Word: shrill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...workmen's compensation. Nor is he the kind of antagonist who makes opponents love him in spite of honest differences. Chunky and spike-haired, he prides himself on speaking his mind anywhere about anything. When he gets on the subject of "invisible government" his thin, sarcastic voice grows shrill with rage. But he is a good teacher. Two years ago Pitt seniors voted him their most popular professor. If anyone still doubted that he was a good teacher, Ralph Edmund Turner could and did refer him last week to no less an authority than John Gabbert Bowman...
...ZANUCK . . . pitches his picture high by 20th Century. Samuel Goldwyn, Reliance, London Films, Viking Productions and Walt Disney. Most active company releasing through? United Artists is Darryl Zanuck's lively year-old 20th Century. Toothy, excitable little Producer Zanuck plays much polo, squeaks at his teammates in the same shrill tones he uses in story conferences. He likes bombastic entertainment, pictures with high pitch. The Zanuck touch should improve Cardinal Richelieu with George Arliss; Jack London's Call of the Wild; Ronald Colman in Clive of India; The Mighty Barnum, with Wallace Beery in the title role. Samuel Goldwyn...
...shrill gossipy termagant...
...like old times when the record crowd of 60,000 citizens and notables arrived in full force. Six horses were scratched in the morning and early afternoon, including the Pacific Coast hope, Riskulus. leaving 13 limber-legged thoroughbreds to spring from the barrier as the crowd uttered one vast shrill: "They're off!" Mata Hari, Charles T. Fisher's filly, broke fast and led to the first turn, Sgt. Byrne closing swiftly. Jockey Don Meade went to the outside with Colonel Edward Riley Bradley's filly Bazaar, hot after the leaders. Little old Jockey Mack Garner...
Professor Pereda (TIME. April 9, p. 18), during his seven-day fast, did not go home to bed-he remained at the Plaza night and day. And he did not shrill at the woman from the U. S. when he said: "You damned woman...