Word: sirene
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...lengths showed between the boats at a mile and one-half. An unwritten rule of boat-racing prescribes that yachts shall not blow their horns until the finish, but some Yale sympathizer felt that it did not matter whether the Yale boat heard their coxswain now or not; one siren started, and the river roared with noise. Harvard got to the line 21 sec. (5½ lengths) after Yale had let its shell run. Harvard's solace: a junior varsity crew who beat Yale ¾ of a length; a husky freshman crew who beat Yale 3¾ lengths...
...barked. Monkeys chattered, birds screeched, an elephant snorted, a tiger growled, all very obligingly. But Peter, a large hippopotamus, plunged to the bottom of his tank, made not a single grunt. Coyotes, who generally bark when 5 o'clock whistles blow in Manhattan, were fooled by the siren of a fire engine at 4 o'clock, refused to bark again at 5 for the radio audience...
...seven, he and 13 other boys (the oldest n) wan- dered too far from the village, got lost, after 45 days came to the sea. There they saw a steamship, went out to it in a canoe, clambered aboard. LoBagola wandered down to the engine room. When the warning siren blew, it so terrified the little black boys on deck that they jumped over the rail, were all drowned or killed by sharks. LoBagola, locked in a cabin, was carried to Scotland, a savage little animal who' would not wear clothes, bit people who tried to dress...
...Benac, she easily persuaded M. Topaze to become that scoundrel's unconscious tool. And even when M. Topaze learned the truth and spent his days quivering with remorse and fright, and disguising his voice over the telephone, he still kept his position out of his love for the siren...
...Black Duck with machine gun fire, killing three of her four occupants, were the facts of this latest episode in Federal liquor suppression. Agreed: the Black Duck was a rumrunner with 500 cases aboard; her stern was peppered with bullets from C. G. 290. Coast Guard claim: a siren first warned the Black Duck to stop; she tried to escape; a one-pound shot failed to halt her; machine gun fire was a last resort; the Black Duck either veered her course or rose on a wave crest to catch the full volley of lead...