Word: sirene
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...dawn on Sunday the prison siren hooted across the moor. Convicts had broken into the warden's office and attempted to steal the keys. Every man in Princetown, the little village under the prison walls, was given a rifle and posted near the jail. The central cell block roared up in flames, the clock tower fell. Guards with riot guns stood on ladders and popped at every cropped head that showed above the parapet...
...into the publishing business. He caused his irascible and wealthy father a great deal of trouble, particularly when he went to live with a chirrupy little magazine illustrator named Daisy Sage (Frances Fuller). When Daisy goes abroad to study art, Tom falls under the spell of a luscious blonde siren (Lora Baxter) who lures the dazzled young man into marriage, to the anguish of Daisy and to the disgust of Tom's Bohemian cronies and of Regan, Tom's redheaded, ex-prizefighting butler...
...lights in Tom's living room are lowered. A small table for two has been set intimately, with a small rosy lamp and a bottle of bubbly. Never has the siren been more seductive than now, when she tries to woo her husband out of his dark mood, a mood which is running to ironic quotations. "Waiter," he orders his butler, "waiter, another small bottle, please. Regan, dost thou know who made thee...
Leaving her door invitingly ajar, Mrs. Collier retires. Butler Regan packs his bag, prepares to leave the house, as if he feared the lightning were about to strike it. Unknown to the siren, Tom Collier is about to leave, too. Months before he had said: "Any good man who leaves his work for the world, leaves it for a whore." On the mantel he places a check. Then he claps his hat on his head, stalks toward the door. "I am going back to my wife," decides Tom, meaning, as is by this time clear, Daisy...
...Thomas Hedges Massie, U. S. N., 26; and an enlisted man named E. J. Lord. Mrs. Fortescue, composed and smiling, sat on the roadside until more police arrived as an escort back to Honolulu where Albert Orrin Jones, a second enlisted man, was also taken into custody. The great siren atop Aloha Tower shrieked a general alarm to the National Guard...