Word: shrilled
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...night last week, while socialites gathered around the illicit green gaming tables of the recently reopened Quitan-dinha Hotel at Petropolis, Baby stepped to the door, blew a shrill blast on a police whistle. As the guests scampered out, Baby tipped his straw hat to them. Another time, when he visited New York, he booked a suite of eight rooms in a Park Avenue hotel, rang up various girl friends and gave a continuous house party...
...tireless party-liner, make much sense on the floor of the House. But last week, as a one-man minority, he had a chance to deliver a shrewd blow while he enjoyed the discomfiture of the two majority parties. "It is obvious to everybody," he said, in his shrill and rasping voice, "that everybody wants civil rights as an issue but not as a law. That goes for Harry Truman, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party...
...year and a half since Tito & Co. broke with the Kremlin. Behind the shrill vilification and foggy dialectics of party doctrinaires loomed a basic power question: Could there be equality between Communist states, or must a Communist state outside Russia be a Soviet satellite? Tito said it need not, and he has proved...
...their first names. (Nobody, not even his wife, now calls him anything but "Doc.") Born & raised on a farm near Madison in eastern Nebraska, Doc Reeves can talk with his patients about stock and crops, fodder and weather. In his office or at the hospital he can hear the shrill yipping of cowboys as they drive a herd of red Herefords through the middle of town to a feed lot. Many of his cases are cowboys with broken bones or farm boys with mangled hands...
...feet of Mary Howe, the director. Mrs. Howe has been with the group for some time but she continues to show an appalling indifference to some of the mere fundamentals of staging. The greatest fault with the present production is that it is played throughout on too shrill a key. Miss Friedman is allowed to shout her lines most of the time, thereby making some of them unintelligible. Moreover, her interpretation of the lesbian is so rigidly mannish as to become a caricature. Miss O'Connel is pleasing to gaze upon and believable as the heartless woman. Mr. Franklin brings...