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...journalist lover, companion of an illicit weekend in Mexico, says a casual goodbye to her, she is seen in one of those rapid sequences indicating a shattering of feminine morale-broken scenes in which Miss Shearer dances in the arms of successive admirers, always to the accompaniment of a shrill, annoying laughter that is the keynote of the picture. The dialog is wretched. Most tiresome shot: Robert Montgomery's half-filled cocktail glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 20, 1931 | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

...Shrill with emotion came the cry of Lady Astor, "God forbid that you should!" (Tears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Baldwin, Churchill & Gandhi | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

...singers have the air of comics burlesquing grand opera stars. Their voices are not bad but they sing as loud as they can all the time and the recording makes the results even worse. The orchestra utters metallic clickings, moans sepulchrally in the lower register, makes the upper notes shrill and hollow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 2, 1931 | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

...wizened, gnomish little Yorkshireman who goes tapping about the House of Commons on two canes popped up again last week, made Mother England jump at his shrill words like a drowsy old lady at the squeak of a mouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Snowden & Dole | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

Cried the Speaker, shrill with anger but punctilious of phrase: "The Honorable Member from Peckham will retire from the House immediately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Mace! The Mace! | 7/28/1930 | See Source »

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