Word: shrills
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...With the shrill blast of a bo'sun's call, the 42nd annual National Motor Boat Show was opened in Manhattan's Grand Central Palace last week, and the first of some 250,000 sailors and would-be sailors were "piped aboard." Biggest news at the show this year are mass-produced, prefabricated "kit-boats," which an amateur boatbuilder can put to gether for as little as 50% of the cost of buying a finished boat. Completely precut, right down to drilled holes and fitted joints, the kit-boats range in size from an 8-ft. pram...
...winter there's a hill for sledding; While through October afternoons Horse chestnuts dribble on the grass, Prized above diamonds or doubloons By miser children, shrill from class...
...confused with the milk-curdling Scottish pipes. The medieval one-cane Italian pipe had not so shrill a timbre...
...chorus of frenzied cries wailed up from Capitol Hill as a House subcommittee continued to poke at the Internal Revenue Bureau scandals. Almost all the voices were raised in answer to the shrill tones of a sharp-eyed Chicago lawyer named Abraham Teitelbaum. Attorney Teitelbaum, who described his late client Al Capone as "one of the most honorable men I ever knew," is in tax trouble with the Government-a matter of at least $130,000 in unpaid income taxes. It looked as if this trouble would be settled without much difficulty, he testified last week, until two men named...
...center of an ever widening ring of people, without an overcoat, on a small, rough, wooden platform, stood a short plump man in the black suit of a clergyman, his arms waving in the air, his white hair tossing about above his glasses, his shrill voice carrying over the noise of traffic on nearby Charles Street...