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...down. It did not take very long. At 10:34 Benito Mussolini rose from the head of the table, strode across the room, stepped out on to the balcony. Ta ra ta ta ra ta ta ra! blared the bugles below. The cheers of the crowd rose to a shrill, hysterical scream. Women fainted in the crush and their rigid bodies were passed out from hand to hand over the heads of the crowd. Finally, chin outthrust, Benito Mussolini rested both hands on the balustrade and bellowed: "Officers, non-commissioned officers, privates, Black Shirts of the Fascist revolution, Italian...
...Adolf Hitler's last two speeches, the first in the Krupp Steel Works at Essen, the second in the exhibition hall at Cologne. Every German had his stage directions. At 3:45 o'clock on the afternoon of the Essen speech radios all over Germany echoed the shrill yip of Minister Goebbels: "RAISE FLAGS!" On that instant from every flagstaff in Germany and from the windows of thousands of little cottages unrolled the swastika banner. Then followed the voice of Dr. Goebbels, solemn as a priest: "Adolf Hitler is Germany...
...bald head shining like a knob of burnished marble, smacked drive after drive off a tee. Seven caddies returned the balls, patted down little sand tees, scurried down the course as the man kept poling out drives like an automaton. Suddenly from another part of the fairway came a shrill cry of warning. Without hesitation the man dropped his club, scampered into a clump of nearby bushes. Few minutes later there came another cry. The man returned, resumed his work...
Academic peace and quiet of Winthrop was rudely upset last week by intermittent shrill squawks, driving several members from their books to a sleuthing expedition. The disturbance was traced to a balcony outside the window of a well-known Puritan pianist, upon which was perched a goose, evidently playing the role of fan mail. The goose has been removed, and members of the House go to their meals with an air of expectancy...
...point of the performance: shrill Gracie Barrie singing I've Got To Get Hot, a ballad about a choir singer turned crooner which includes the following tristich: I've squelched my ideals, Now I belch at my meals...