Word: shrilled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...latest snobographer to revive the discussion is Russell Lynes, an editor of Harper's who set himself up in a magazine article last year as an arbiter of high, low and middle brows. In Snobs, Arbiter Lynes patters along in Thackeray's large footsteps, rather like a shrill but amiable terrier at the end of a 100-year leash. His bark is sure to get plenty of attention, and his bite, though not very sharp, may even penetrate a few skins...
...which brought him little success; his mother, a onetime housemaid, became a rather incapable housekeeper. His own visage, which, in his journalistic heyday, beamed down on Londoners from billboards and the sides of the city's big red buses, was unrefined, not to say coarse; his voice was shrill and slightly cockney. While indubitably a born writer, he was not in the least an esthete -indeed, he compared Esthete Proust's Remembrance of Things Past to "a 20-year-old store catalogue." Though a staunch socialist and avid student of political economy, he considered Karl Marx "the worst...
...truck), Tandon was pelted with flowers. Headed by an elephant borrowed from an itinerant circus, the procession jogged through packed and bedecked streets. Behind Tandon's duck came 5,000 Congress delegates, a score of mounted military cadets and a group of 100 folk dancers tripping to the shrill notes of the flute-like shanai...
Jobless, speaking a strange tongue, crowded into miserable tenements, thousands soon turned up on the relief rolls, costing the city $15,600,000 a year. Their children crowded the already crowded public schools. With shrill cries of outrage and alarm, the sensational journals gave tongue, blaming them for every civic woe. Feature writers found them living five and six to a room, two and three families to an apartment, in cellars and abandoned stores, even in coalbins. The average Puerto Rican was pictured heaving his disease-racked body off the plane and heading straight for a relief center. More sinister...
...making, the bristle mustache suddenly twitches, and the face looks heavenward in horror. The jaw sags until the huge cigar droops from his lower lip like a wet sheet hanging from a tenement window. He leans back across the grand piano in his office. His voice becomes shrill and frightened. This is Zanuck impersonating a virgin in distress...