Word: shrilled
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...there is some gymnastic constraint in little yellow Japanese frames which makes it impossible for them to throw and catch without an awkwardness. They are at their best in running and sliding between bases; their feet are quick and they give little birdlike cries on arriving safely, or shrill furious ones when they are tagged. The terminology of baseball in Japan is identical with that in the U. S.; it is strange to hear the hordes of rooters, their eyes swimming with suspense, abusing pitchers in their own tongue but calling on the batter to ''swat a homer...
Casey pulled up that Reno hill, He tooted for the crossing with an awful shrill, The switchman knew by the engine's moans That the man at the throttle was Casey Jones. He pulled lip within two miles of the place, Number four stared him right in the face, Turned to the fireman, said; "Boys, you'd better...
...knavish judge and in that of the dirty district attorney. The minor parts are badly taken; but Charles Bickford, as the flaring Macready, Horace Braham, as the less truculent, beseeching Capraro, and Sylvia Sidney, as the well-gowned and eventually hysterical fiancee of the former make you, as one shrill memuer of the audience remarked, wish to "go to Boston and kill a few people...
...ridiculous and stupid play relating apparently the trite story of a backstage Don Juan; actually its purpose was to exploit, not study, homosexualism in its most blatant form. A party was given on the stage by one pervert for his fellows; here Mae West provided her actors with shrill obscenities to shriek. The audience, more prurient even than the playwright, found these interludes funny or exciting; they laughed with weird crescendoes...
...Prince Chichibu, who is brother of the Emperor and heir apparent to the throne of Japan, tripped gracefully from the Shinyomaru, sheltered herself behind her father, Japanese ambassador to the U. S. Buddhist pilgrims beat incessantly upon their hand drums and invoked the heavenly Lotus. Yokohama school children piped shrill greetings to the girl who may be their Empress. Only Prince Chichibu, restrained by chill etiquette, remained in Tokyo, impatiently awaited his betrothed...