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...took direct action against what he conceived as oppression, social and personal, by marrying a pretty schoolgirl who didn't want to go back to school. Blunden supplies attractive pictures of this adventure-of Harriet "ready to die of laughter" as the 20-year-old Percy, slim and shrill-voiced, stood on a Dublin balcony hurling moral tracts at selected passersby. A combatant for liberty, Shelley poetized in Queen Mob against kings, priests, commerce, wealth and war; he sought out the reformer, William Godwin, and in due course fell in love with his daughter, Mary...
...traffic-clogged Boston, the fire department voiced a shrill complaint: its modern motorized equipment couldn't get to fires as fast as horse-drawn pump carts did a half-century...
When in Rome. Among Rome's 26 postwar dailies, most of them shrill, partisan organs, the American is the least opinionated. As guests in Italy's house, its publishers steer clear of politics. Their editorials are not their own, but strings of carefully culled quotes from leading U.S. or British papers...
...could have heard a pica drop in the third-floor city room of Manhattan's shrill PM. Said the mimeographed announcement: Editor-Founder Ralph McAllister Ingersoll was out, advertisements were...
...core of Manhattan's sprawling 18th Congressional District is a verminous, crime-ridden slum called East Harlem. Its hordes of Italians, Puerto Ricans, Jews and Negroes have traditionally voted Republican. But in the last decade a new force came into power: the patchwork patronage machine of shrill, stooped, angry-eyed, pro-Communist Representative Vito...