Word: shrills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...face contorted with rage, he paddled the harder, but in vain, and on seeing himself nearing the shore, he leaped overboard with a shrill cry of despair and began to swim away. Though his efforts were heroic, his progress was practically nil, and some thirty seconds later he was rapidly overhauled by a long arm, which ignominiously lifted and deposited him in the bottom of the boat, defeated, but not discouraged, thwarted, but not downhearted, but very, very...
...wild. On and on he talked, day and night, day after day, without rhyme or reason. From bed to sofa he rambled. The family pulled down the shades to shield him from the neighbors. The folks tried to catch some sense from what he chattered. His voice became shrill, raspy, hurried. "Cigarets should never be taxed in Ohio," ran his monolog. "When I was a boy, Joe and I used to go swimming together. Now he thinks cigarets should be taxed. . . . Sometimes I believe that Joe doesn't realize how hard it is to be a truck driver in Columbus...
...Royal Family were abruptly and permanently barred by the British Broadcasting Corporation last week as postmen arrived with truckloads of protests against a quip broadcast from Leamington by Comedian Ernie Moss. Referring to the world's largest underwater tunnel, lately opened by His Majesty (TIME, July 30), shrill Mr. Moss chirped: "I was to have opened the Mersey Tunnel but the King charged a pound less, so I didn...
...slim pickings in the seared fields of France or by the banks of the Danube. And in Germany he would see crops so poor that people must eat potatoes once thrown to the pigs. In Russia the roar of 140,000 tractors hastily harvesting a premature crop, the shrill cries of village children scampering after the reapers to scoop up lost heads of precious wheat, would drive the traveling locust on into Northern China. There he might get his wings soaked in torrents of crop-destroying rain, if he did not fly to Western China. There drought...
China's is the only Government which cheerfully and publicly buys off its political foes, generally with much heroic haggling. Last week a glorious bargain was finally struck by agents of the shrill little Chinese Generalissimo, wasp-waisted Chiang Kaishek. To get this most vital haggle started the agents had to go to British Hongkong and blandish their way into a strongly built house protected by elaborate iron gratings and guarded day and night by heavily armed Sikh police from India...