Word: shrills
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...anger climbed in the likeness of a black cone. The air thinned, darkened, the sea cowered beside the ship; Jonah slept. Suddenly, the sail split from top to bottom and one mariner, huddled with the rest, called on the name of his god in a voice shrill and little like a bat's; next instant, with a great clap, the sky fell into...
...Marshal, "an official chosen for his handsomeness," on a fine, prancing horse. Among the thousands upon thousands of people who lined the streets to witness the show the usual comments at the expense of the Marshall were heard: " 'E don't 'arf fancy hisself, don't 'e," yelled a shrill female voice. "Chuck it, Liz," growled her young man. "Jus' look at 'is 'at," shrieked the damsel. The crowd looked; and although they had all seen it before, they broke into jeering laughter. And so it is year after year; yet these taunts are the outer signs of an inner...
...Performance. The action was merely suggested, never carried out. The actors sang in shrill, piercing falsetto voices, displaying incredible endurance. Most of the principals were relieved by their understudies before the evening was over?except the prima donna, who carried on until midnight. The stage manager came out occasionally and told the audience what all the action was about. a stage hand moved on and off with tables, chairs and other props, as the "scene" changed. The costumes were the last word in Eastern sumptuousness; they were said to cost $500 apiece. There was no scenery...
...Selves vowed he had not heard the insult. This angered still more the Left Senators, who, headed by shrill voices from the ministerial seats, began to call for de Selves' resignation. In vain did the latter try to pacify the irate graybeards and others less bewhiskered; finally he was forced to put on his hat, thus suspending the session. A motion to transfer to le Panthéon, last resting place of France's great men, the bones of Jean Jaurés, Socialist, who was assassinated on the eve of the outbreak of the War, was passed...
...naturally, reference was made to France's outstanding "traitors": Louis Malvy, exiled for défaitisme, Joseph Caillaux, convicted for "endangering France's alliances" (TIME, June 2). Everyone began to shout at once, a not uncommon occurrence in the Chambre. Then, high above the mighty tumult, a shrill voice from the Right was heard enunciating the name of Mati Hari (famed Dutch dancer, shot as a spy during the War; alleged mistress of Louis Malvy). Instantly Louis, whose term of exile was recently completed and who now sits in the Chambre as a Communist...