Word: shrills
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...merger argument reached a shrill, fishwifely pitch last week. Everyone figured that the debate was in its final stage; almost everyone joined...
...Secretary Patterson ridiculed the charge, and the Navy charts (a "fancy brochure" . . . "diversionary effort"). On lower levels the shrill cries were re-echoed...
...Byron letters. Through a London book seller, "Major" Byron's wife sold 47 forged Byron autographs to Publisher John Murray. Soon she was back with a swatch of "lost" Shelley letters. Soon the "Major" was in touch with Mary Shelley. Their biographical black marketing was sometimes disturbed by shrill cries of "Blackguard!" from Mary...
Last week the French made an international issue of the A. The French Office of Art and Creation charged that Russia, England and the U.S. had now permitted A to soar to a shrill 912 vibrations. Actually the U.S. standard concert pitch is 880, by French count.* France diplomatically offered to compromise with the Big Three at 880-which is still ten vibrations more than its classical composers allowed-if the Big Three will stick to its professed standard...
...ticker tape and letterheads (on account of the paper shortage General Eisenhower got but 77 tons). A huge ship's bow with five stars, hawsers, other seagoing gizmos was built in front of City Hall, and vast mobs gathered to watch the Admiral go aboard to the shrill of bosuns' calls. In the evening 2,000 people paid $15 a plate to attend a posh Waldorf-Astoria dinner where Admiral Nimitz* was introduced by Nelson Rockefeller...