Word: shrills
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...streets were dark because Hamburg has no coal for street lighting. In front of one house, shabby passers-by gaped up at the brightly lighted windows, listened to tinny dance music, shrill voices and the clink of glasses that drifted out into the summer night...
...come all the way from Scotland's Isle of Skye for the doings. Dressed in tribal tartan, the MacLeod of MacLeods watched the clansmen in sword dances, Highland flings. With another kilted chieftain, Premier Angus L. Macdonald, she listened to speeches in Gaelic and stamped time to shrill renditions (including Mrs. MacLeod's March, written especially for the occasion) by the Cape Breton Highlander's Pipe Band. Said she: "It is wonderful to be in a place as Scottish as Cape Breton...
...press has tended to discount its own validity, and, as a result, the morale of its readers is low. They have been fed on too constant a diet of superlatives and excitements. . . . From public slogans and party platforms, shrill editorials and spiced-up news, to the insistent din and pretense of advertising, the reader . . . comes to believe that the careers of newsmen depend on the illicit transformation of narrative into melodrama. . . . He imagines propaganda both where it is and where...
...calm under the harsh Riviera sun. Eighty-two children crowded the small 30-ft. motor launch Annamaria as it pulled out from the little seashore town of Loana. With shrill chatter and singing, the children (aged ten to twelve) set forth with six women guardians and three crewmen for the isle of Gallinaria, six miles away...
...fiancée, Rose Hobart, at the cat-&-cat game. In some bewilderment, psychologist and girl reporter fall in love. Typical side dish: a bespectacled adolescent, complete with outsized Adam's apple, who falls for Miss Wright. Best thing in the show: Iris Adrian as a stripteaser, uttering shrill little growls of self-esteem as she does-or rather, undoes-her stuff...