Word: shrills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shorefront from Corpus Christi to Brownsville. The gloomy curtain rolled inland over orchards and cotton fields before the lappings and lashings of the wind. Long muddy-foamed sea waves licked angrily at the shore, tumbled into the lowlands. At Corpus Christi a giant steam whistle blew its shrill warning blast at ten-second intervals. Streets were deserted, houses and storefronts had been hurriedly boarded up. The townspeople were huddled in strong structures on the sand bluffs back of Corpus Christi, waiting. Suddenly the black clouds parted, the moon shone through, the rain ceased. There was an ominous silence. Moonlight...
Pretty, long-legged Lora Baxter is shrill, restless, self-centred and predatory as Tallulah Bankhead. When her part calls for acting, she rants and waves her arms as Miss Bankhead would never do, even at home. Most of the time Mrs. Campbell's flat face, truculent mouth and huge eyes dominate the proceedings with lines which may very well have been contributed by herself. A Party, scarcely a play, is based on the novel idea that some people who cannot, would like to go to a celebrity party. It succeeds in exploding the idea that such a party...
...keep a precarious peace with Japan. For weeks Chinese patriots sent fighting funds to War Lord Feng, who had fancy arm bands with fighting mottoes expensively stitched on his soldiers' sleeves, then suddenly announced, "I am going into retirement" (TIME, Aug. 14). Last week the Government of slim, shrill Generalissimo Chiang had to send a private train to bring huge, rumbling War Lord Feng triumphantly home from Chahar. He reached Peiping like a conqueror, traveling with an entire regiment as his bodyguard, grinning and cracking his barnyard jokes at "Chiang and his Government who think they can make themselves...
General Johnson picked "Robbie" from last year's Democratic campaign headquarters. She is a self-made girl, aggressive, shrewd, able. She wears smart clothes, smokes in the corridors, bawls out office boys in a shrill voice. She conceals her past for fear alleged relatives will try to borrow from her. She winks at her friends, ignores strangers about the office. As a matter of business newsmen play up to her, get their neckties straightened and handkerchiefs adjusted in return. Says Secretary Robinson: "It's wonderful to meet all the great men of the country. I'm getting...
...devoured almost 10,000,000 soldiers. This picture book details the four-year repast in 513 photographs chronologically strung together on shrill newspaper headlines of the day. The result is not history as the historian writes it but war as every veteran remembers it. Here are the actual sights of battle which evoke its sounds as well-the off-stage hammering of long-snouted guns, the lazy pouf of shrapnel in a blue sky, the invisible stutter of machine guns, the pink of rifle fire, the scrunch of mud, the loud curses, the grunts of the living, the groans...