Word: shrills
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...years shrill-voiced Hertzog had been fighting Smuts and the British Empire. Hertzog carried a Bible and a bandoleer into the Boer War, bravely and cleverly fought the British-as did Smuts. But the Hertzog enmity continued. He voted against the peace at Vereeniging in 1902, devoted the succeeding years to law and his own brand of reform. In the mining camps, the veld farmhouses and the dorps (country towns), he harangued against horse racing, gambling, nightclubs, novels and the British. He advocated no votes, no beer, no property for Negroes. In the army he introduced horsewhipping and quick execution...
...thing: make such exasperating, excruciating noises that listeners turn to another station rather than be driven nuts. One favorite Axis jamming signal is a series of musical tones repeated interminably, as if a mad vibraphonist were banging away rapidly with one mallet. Another sounds like a collection of piercingly shrill peanut whistles...
...were fickle. Already they had picked a new favorite: the six-foot-one, wavy-haired son of a circus bandleader and circus bareback rider, Trumpeter Harry James. Already the "modern Gabriel" and his band had pied-piped away the followers of many hotter orchestras. When he blew his sweet, shrill horn, his fans were sent out of this world; and this was fast sending James into the land of plenty...
Radio's shrill-voiced, incredible pundits, the Quiz Kids, last fortnight took the Army aviation cadet "screening" test, averaged a score of 101. Passing score: 80. Commented Van Dyke Tiers, 15: "Some of the math and physics problems I recognized from school before I was halfway through them." His score was 131, only 12 below the highest ever registered at the Chicago recruiting office...
...radio, in the press, in Congress, in Parliament there was the same shrill, urgent clamor. Along the "invasion coast" the Nazis maneuvered, bolstered their elaborate defenses, reportedly rushed some 3,000,000 Europeans away from possible areas of attack and tucked them away in concentration camps in Germany. Over the Continent was the electric tension that precedes a storm...