Word: shrilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...irritating to the throat." This sort of talk would presumably have made little impression in a world full of cigaret claims had not Philip Morris' smart advertising agent Milton Biow had a brain wave. He remembered an old Philip Morris slogan, "Call for Philip Morris," and hired a shrill-voiced dwarf named John Roventini to chant it on the radio...
...Jones earned as much as $7,500 a week, took in about $300,000 all told. Whenever a Buck Jones picture goes out, it has an audience of 3,500,000 youngsters waiting for it- cinema's biggest fan club, the Buck Jones Rangers. They proudly wear badges, shrill the praises of Buck and his 25-year-old horse, Silver, from Maine to Hawaii...
...last 358 pages The Pasquier Chronicles gets genuinely mysterious in its confused diffusion. A score of new characters pop into the story, including distinguished scientists who agonize about the universe. The action shifts from the embattled Pasquier household to a co-operative colony in which, to the accompaniment of shrill, ethereal disputes, young poets and artists run a printing press...
...skit about the White House was hammed. Another, about the home life of the Lunts, appeared to be about acrobats. A piece about the rich unionizing turned shrill. Throughout there were very knowing references to Bergdorf Goodman, Countess di Frasso, the Racquet & Tennis Club, Manhattan's champagne country. Best touch: switchboard wires curling and writhing like snakes. Best performer: Comedienne Imogene Coca...
...speakers could not be heard by more than a fraction of the listeners, but whenever the Congress has met this has always been true and Indians do not mind. To them a palaver of this kind is a great emotional experience and they pay little heed to the shrill, monotonous speeches. Then every nightfall President Bose climbed back into his chariot and was drawn home in triumph by the 51 golden-horned bullocks...