Word: shrills
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...dirty liar!" interrupted a shrill, hysterical voice...
...Madrid, with advancing White Armies closing in all around and only some 30 miles away as the week opened, the facade of the "Spanish Republic" was noticeably crumbling. At Geneva last week the diplomatic representative of Premier Largo Caballero, "The Spanish Lenin," made shrill speeches about Democracy being at stake in Madrid, but uncensored dispatches brought by courier pictured the Capital as ruled in fact by proletarian Terror. Estimating that between 10,000 and 15,000 persons have been executed by Government firing squads in Madrid or simply butchered in their homes and on the streets by mobster adherents...
...down he did not notice that in the new League building had been hung a magnificent antique tapestry depicting Emperor Charles V driving the Turkish barbarians in confusion from Vienna in the year 1529. When through his thick-lensed spectacles Dr. Aras at last saw this he raised a shrill rumpus and the League, as a conciliatory gesture to Dictator Mustafa Kamal Atatürk, hastily removed the tapestry...
...from residents of Mt. Kisco, Katonah and Bedford Hills, N. Y., President Frederick Ely Williamson of New York Central Railroad, which runs through these swank suburban towns, last week visited them, listened carefully, agreed to put whistles on his trains which will emit a soothing "Beep" instead of a shrill "Toot...
...With this apparatus they set up an ear-splitting racket. As a mating call, this is wasted effort, because the females seem to have no auditory organ whatever. It is possible, however, that as snakes perceive the vibrations of sound with their tongues, the female cicada may feel the shrill song of the male with her antennae or some other organ. To clarify this situation a program of re-search was last week reported to be on foot at the University of Maryland. The call of the male will be transmitted by microphone to a loudspeaker in another room...