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From Amman's rooftops, watching women sang out with joy, their shrill voices sounding like the collective cooing of a thousand pigeons. In the crowded streets, the people yelled: "Yaish el Malek-Long live the King!" Abdullah Ibn Hussein, direct descendant of the Prophet, also known to his good British friends as "The Ab," had just been proclaimed monarch over the 30,000 square miles of lava and desert reaches and over the 300,000 souls of Trans-Jordan...
...people had not been talked to like that in a long time. LaGuardia's shrill scolding made them wince-momentarily, at least. But they still paid scant attention to the grave admonitions of Herbert Hoover, from that faraway, hungry continent of Europe (see INTERNATIONAL...
These are some of the "secrets" in Top Secret: earnest, shrill World War II history as interpreted by the editor of Manhattan's earnest, shrill daily tabloid PM. The subject is the Anglo-American invasion of Europe and the Battle of Germany. Editor Ingersoll, as a General Staff Corps officer, had a share in making and carrying out some of the plans involved. Top Secret was written after he was released from the Army (as a lieutenant colonel) in August...
...ostensibly the trouble had something to do with politics. The Liberal Union was marching through the Yard, protesting Winston Churchill's "warmongering." Partisans of the Conservative League decided to break up the parade, and-Rinehart! The riotous reason was really spring, and like a maenadic overtone sounded the shrill, feminine piping of Radcliffe girls, now virtually coeds at Harvard...
There are other pleasant people in Three to Make Ready, notably expertly exuberant Dancer Harold Lang (Fancy Free) and wryly imperious, tonily shrill Brenda Forbes, a kind of Class B Lillie. But otherwise, Three to Make Ready is a very wet box of matches-a bathroom sketch whose humor is even more out of date than the plumbing, an interminable Sad Sack todo, a facile take-off on Oklahoma!, comments by a grimly recurrent radio comic named Arthur Godfrey. Everything considered, Three to Make Ready would have done far better to confine itself to Bolger and a backdrop...