Word: shrilled
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...matter to them that Producer George Grouse Tyler was offering this amiable revival at popular prices; that D. Lyn Harding, Mrs. Leslie Carter, Fay Bainter, Glenn Hunter, Pauline Lord and O. P. Heggie were listed in the cast. The sly choirs of critics were heard chirping in shrill and resonant annoyance; some of the stars, they justly cried, were out of orbit; the play itself was not quite so twinkling as they had been led to suppose. It retained mainly the charm of graceful and sometimes naughty antiquity...
...this play which examines the interval in a man's life between his failure in love and his suicide. Drinking with a shifty little crony, talking to a good-natured whore, working with meticulous figures in a bank-all the activities of living assume for him the shrill, bloodcurdling futility of the little drumming dance he plays, from time to time, on the high notes of a piano...
...times a minute. The insect did not die because air pockets j in his hard coat apparently protected him. Beside these insect researches, Mr. Loomis, vice president of Bonbright & Co., experiments in his private laboratory at Tuxedo Park, N. Y., on the effect of "super-sounds," too shrill for human audibility. The "super-sounds" kill fish, paralyze mice, sterilize blood...
...result of a chill he lad caught a month before. His hands, as thin and brown as claws, played nervously with the edge of his quilt. James Barrie came to talk to him; Hardy's peaked mournful face was turned sideways on its pillow, his voice seemed shrill and tired as he spoke to the writer who, with himself, shares the honor of being most respected by the British public. For a few days Thomas Hardy grew stronger. Then one early evening last week after signing a check and reading some of Walter de la Mare's poems...
...says the U. S. Constitution, "that office" being the Presidency. Amid last week's boomings was heard some shrill, legalistic pop-gunnery to the effect that Herbert Clark Hoover was ineligible for the Presidency because in 1914 and for several years thereafter he was directing war relief work in Europe...