Word: shrill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning in the tower. The Vagabond is awake. Outside the birds are singing in nasty, shrill voices; horrid, sticky buds disfigure the trees; below, a surpassingly unattractive girl is passing. It is cold, and revoltingly early. The Vagabond ponders a moment, with a puzzled look; suddenly it comes to him: his inner standard has returned...
...plane is too high for its proper glide the needle swings up; if the plane is too low, down goes the needle. Pilot Kinney's job was to keep it centred, neatly bisecting the runway needle. Also he had to keep his ears alert for a shrill "Be-e-e-ep!" in his earphones. That meant: "You are now 1,000 ft. from the field boundary. Throttle down." On he went, eyeing his needles, until he heard another "Be-e-e-ep!", lower pitched, meaning: "Edge of the field! Cut the motor!" By this time the pilot could...
Scratch a young, ambitious Japanese officer and find a fiercely devoted acolyte of austere, intense War Minister Sadao Araki. Older heads, especially in the House of Peers, may shake, do shake. But Lieut.-General Araki sums up in his short, shrill self both Hodo and Bushido, the benevolent and conquering watchwords of Imperial Japan...
...General Don Gustavo de Sostoa, a popular veteran of the Spanish colonial service in Morocco, had been inspecting small islands for days. He came at last to Annobon, wrung the trusty Sergeant's hand, sat down to a festive, tropical dinner and prepared to endure the native dance. Shrill native pipes squealed, drums throbbed. Black men began to dance and no one noticed white Sergeant Castilla...
...rewrite men to work in various characteristic fashions: United Press: "Englewood, N. J.-A new mite of humanity . . . slept tonight in the nursery of the kidnapped and murdered Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. ... In an adjoining room, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, rested from the ordeal of motherhood, listened delightedly to the shrill wails of the new arrival. . . ." Universal: ". . . He came at 7:30 o'clock in the white nursery of the Morrow home at Englewood. . . ." Chicago Tribune: ". . . The estate was quiet except for the rumble of the milk wagon and arrival of Dr. Edward Hawkes and three other specialists. . . ." Similarly...