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...Honor Fiorello LaGuardia added his shrill voice: "It just happened that Brooklyn College was the school that was caught, but Brooklyn College is not the only...
Unlike the human variety, whose shrill voice it shares, the shrew's bad temper is the result of a too good digestion: So rapid are its metabolic processes that a shrew will starve to death in a matter of hours if it does not keep eating. If two shrews are caged together overnight, only the stronger will be found in the morning...
This was the old shrill cry; it was unmistakably Hitler...
...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...
...years, shrill, tough Florabel has been working on a no-quarter basis, is supposedly the first woman to be admitted to the rim of a Pacific Coast copy desk, is known to be equipped with a sulphurous vocabulary. She gets news in brusque, traditional police reporter fashion, chases ambulances at any hour, sticks her chin into any situation. Her writing is straight, sometimes awkward, always humorless...