Word: shrilled
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...Carnegie-Illinois steelworkers at the plant at Homestead, who last week greeted Wendell Willkie with boos; reverential Negroes of Pittsburgh's Harlem, who had watched silently, even resentfully, when the President's opponent passed; school children, let out of school for the day, who had jeered in shrill-voiced mockery at the Republican candidate. Now they were merged in a solid mass of organized enthusiasm that reached from Pittsburgh's East Liberty Station, up through the hills of Swissvale and Rankin, that poured out of the grimy factories and working-class homes to roar its sustained, unvaried...
...babies their husbands had not yet seen, wives whose honeymoons had been cut short when the Fleet sailed to Pearl Harbor six months ago, sailors' girls, sailors' mothers. The air jangled with the familiar sounds of "the Fleet's in"-the rattle of anchor chains, the shrill of boatswains' pipes-finally the lilting bugle notes of liberty call. Over the sides of the stern grey ships, up from the bowels of four submarines poured officers and men, into motor launches, gigs, barges. Ashore they disappeared like snow in spring. The grey ships, manned by skeleton crews...
Then she threw the Civic Theatre's name off the billing. During rehearsals she got pretty upstage, held long confabs with Piscator in shrill-voiced German, while the cast stood around wondering whether it was stage business or themselves she was talking about. She was finally asked to speak English, complied...
Superman comes on the air with a shrill, shrieking sound effect (combination of a high wind and a bomb whine, recorded in the Spanish war). Voices hail him with: "Up in the sky-look! It's a bird. . . . It's a plane. . . . It's SUPERMAN!" Superman or no superman, he has to watch his step on the radio. Mothers' clubs have their eyes on him, the Child Study Association of America feels that his occasional rocket & space ship jaunts are a bit too improbable. By radio's own war rules, he must remain neutral...
...largest staff (wags say that at fires there are more Chronicle reporters than firemen). Hearst's Examiner still dominates the morning field with a circulation of 163,003 built on the best local coverage in town. Of the afternoon papers, Hearst's Call-Bulletin is a shrill screamer, the Scripps-Howard News a tired liberal. If Paul Smith can put over the city's only home-owned newspaper as a liberal, world-conscious sheet, he may make...