Word: shrilled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Calif, formally banished girls from a field they had come to dominate: cheer leading. Reasons: 1) girls don't have the authority to control rooters; 2) girls don't know enough about the subtleties of sport to know when to lead a cheer; 3) girls are too shrill; and 4) the boys want to get into...
...Miami Beach for a colorful story on the bustling resort business. Back came a disillusioning reply from the Florida resort's own pressagent, Steve Hannagan: "Business is lousy." The editor got no story, but he helped spread Steve Hannagan's fame as a rare bird among the shrill jays of pressagentry; he was regarded as "an honest pressagent...
...Manchester Guardian, where U.S. coverage is quieter and more complete, Britons do get a much more rounded picture of the U.S. But even the Times, instead of trying to explain the problem of Communists in government, often brushes the whole matter off as "witch hunting" and a shrill campaign . . . against 'spies and saboteurs' who are widely imagined to be imperiling the security of the U.S." Added the chorus of criticisms of the U.S. are such anti-American weeklies as the New Statesman & Nation, which recently said of the indictment of Owen Lattimore for perjury: "Such blanket denunciations smack...
...Washington last week, pickets with signs-"Commute the death sentences of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg"-kept up a 24-hr.-a-day demonstration near the White House. In New York the Daily Worker filled its pages with shrill protests that "the Rosenbergs must live." Throughout Europe, Communists and fellow travelers pointed to the Rosenbergs as martyrs to "reactionary hysteria...
...really quite regal." Others objected to the sculptured royal nose and the laurel-wreathed, bun-backed hairdo. "Not a good likeness, as far as I can judge," humphed famed non-likeness-making Sculptor Epstein. "Look what they've done to our Queen," piped one shrill critic. "Made her neck too long." "I should say," said another sculptor whose own design had been rejected in the competition, "that the Queen has been cast too young, but as to the long neck-I took measurements. The Queen has a long neck...