Word: shrilled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Admiral Ross T. Mclntyre, the President's personal physician, hovered close; he would not leave, he said, unless or until the returns moved substantially in F.D.R.'s favor. (He left just before 11 p.m.) At 11:15 came the dull thump of a bass drum and the shrill tootle of fifes, and the usual torchlight parade of neighbors milled up the circular driveway...
Recipe for Teeth. Soon Comedian Coward found himself in Syria, surrounded by the "comparatively Free French." There he sang to a huge R.A.F. audience, unaware that the rafters of the hangar were teeming with nesting birds. When Mr. Coward piped up, shrill cries answered him from above. "Just bloody little dickybirds," said the colonel...
...superiors, General Eisenhower and General Marshall. After Patton's hysterical slapping of two enlisted men in the Sicilian campaign, Eisenhower ordered him to make a public apology, but he did not fire him. After Patton blurted out his opinions on foreign affairs, Eisenhower put him in wraps. Shrill voice, riding breeches, starred helmet, pearl-handled pistols and all, George Patton disappeared from view...
...shrill French weeklies were completely lacking in subtlety. Says Pertinax: "Candide, Gringoire, and Je Suis Partout might just as well have been gotten out by Goebbels or Starace." They called Roosevelt a Jew and "the century's most conspicuous noodlehead," said "he wants to start a war so as to reestablish Jewish power and deliver the world to Bolshevism, " cried that "at Munich no one has been vanquished except Moscow." In prewar France, concludes Pertinax, "the worst evil wrought by Laval and the rest of them was their allowing German and Italian agents to prostitute the French press...
...with beautiful sopranos so that their voices would not change. At that time the best castrati were the most feted and prosperous singers of the period. Many connoisseurs preferred the castrati to the finest female sopranos, although a critic in London's famed Spectator once complained of "the shrill celestial whine of eunuchs...