Word: shrilled
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...Brooklyn rushed reporters. They interviewed the prodigy-a spindling girl of twelve, physically immature, with solemn eyes, a quick tongue, a shrill treble voice. Her father explained how inspiration comes...
...must be a preacher's daughter. Mary Lewis was adopted when she was eight years old by Rev. William Fitch of Little Rock, Ark. He was moved to take this step after hearing her sing, in a childish treble, "Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam." Mrs. Fitch, a shrill-voiced and bony-handed woman, taught her the words of hymns, while the dominie, who had been a drummer in the Civil War, instructed her in music. Both, with passionate fervor, spanked...
...house fills, glitters, every glitter caught and sifted, anatomized, dissected by high power opera glasses. Potent heads of distinguished families deign to perform the nod of grand grandees. Fierce caballeros bristle, melt before shrill senoritas, bristle again at other cocks, conquistadors. Programs, chiefly of native and Italian opera, rustle. In La Colon's unique gallery, sacred to unattended women, the fair sit sequestered, safe. In the huge "mourning boxes," equipped with iron screens, the rich lounge in privilege. One can peer out, not in. El telon (curtain) rises...
...some wondered, largely the fear of indolence, the terror of the waste and shrill emptiness of life that drove a gentleman of such parts, schooled in such a civilized charm, to lead a life beleaguered with lonely effort, desolated with efficiency? Was it this terror, also, that bred in him such a pity for men that his instant reaction to an outrageous crime was sorrow for the criminals? Various comments to some such effect were; made by his friends, but strangest of all was one supplied by an item printed in his paper just before his body exchanged its pleasant...
...Booh," yelled a shrill voice; the sound grew, deepened, spread from tier to tier until it came thundering from the roomy chests of the spectators seated on the topmost rim of the amphitheatre, under the cold Pleiades-"Booh . . . BOOOH-H. . . ." Mixed in the hoarse menace of that roar were catcalls in trembling falsetto-''Oh, Gerald " -mewings, imprecations, cries of "Bring on Wills . . ." Champion Dempsey turned the color of an embarrased orchid, crept to his seat, remained there until agile Salvadore had defeated Jessick (onetime amateur Pacific Coast lightweight champion), "Newsboy" Brown had won a decision over Frankie Grandetta...