Word: shrills
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...many millions we in our heyday spread around the world-quietly and discreetly." Said the News Chronicle: "Mr. Truman has given . . . the impression that he has sent the Yankee terriers scuttling down the streets of Athens and Ankara with a bright red can tied to their tails, barking a shrill and slightly hysterical message of salvation...
...work and fierce fighting. A child of Manchester's slums, she put herself through Manchester University, championed woman suffrage and union organization. She was elected as a Communist to Manchester's City Council, then switched to the Labor Party, which elected her to Parliament in 1924. There, shrill-voiced but quick-witted, she was in frequent clashes with such debating stalwarts as Winston Churchill, Lady Astor, Lord Woolton (once her schoolteacher...
...Canadians (possibly influenced by an American jingle circa 1890)* were sending whole shiploads of peanuts. The circus managers had several anxious days. There would surely be a high howl in Britain over giving valuable food to animals when British children could use it; and there would surely be a shrill cry from U.S. zoophilists if peanuts intended for elephants were diverted...
...galleries of the House and the Senate, simply to watch the Congressmen at work. On the floor of both houses the tempo was slow, and it was possible to study types. There was the Long Haired Southerner or Patronage Ouzel; the Snapping Southerner or Mississippi Valley Shrill; the rare Old Shaggy or Great Trumpeting Republican and a few aging Bald New Dealers. And, of course, there were droves of newly elected Mute Republicans, all harrumphing softly and rattling paper with an anxious air of authority...
...letters edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford. It might seem like mere academic piety to add further evidence. But readers who miss Henry Adams and His Friends will miss: 1) a hitherto unpublished assortment of more than 600 Adams letters, many of them of first interest; 2) the shrill cackling ofxone of the most gifted and cantankerous of U.S. 19th Century minds...