Word: sirene
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Scene. In the fastnesses of Tennessee, the quiet of dawn is split asunder by wailing screams from a steam siren. It is the Dayton sawmill, waking up villagers and farmers for miles around. From 5 until 6:30 the blasts continue. The hamlet and the fantastic cross between a circus and a holy war that is in progress there come slowly to life...
...Heart of a Siren...
particularly prominent motion-picture actresses, Barbara La Marr probably least deserves her distinction. Possibly she did once; a good many feet of film have gone through the camera since then. Here she is a siren of European capitals who marches about in white satin with a tall wand. Men kill themselves. She tries to kill herself. The maid shifted the poison, making it a "happy" ending...
...false gods everywhere-an impious Mullet; a stertorous Turtle, like an island; a Siren, scaled in emerald, with a pearl loin-rope and breasts of mother-of-pearl. She told Sturly that Beauty was God, but vanished when he asked her to reconcile Life with Death. (The wreck of a Corsican mail packet heightened this central paradox; for the long pilgrim Sharks came and a Cuttlefish lifted a lady's dress, seeking his dinner...
...minutes Dr. Israel Kassow, attendant physician, worked in vain, suddenly remembered reading of how a pulmotor had been used in a similar case in Chicago. He seized a telephone, called up the Northern Union Gas Co., explained his need; an emergency pulmotor crew raced to the hospital with siren roaring. The pulmotor forced air into the apparently lifeless lungs, sucked it out again; the lungs responded, the pulse began to strike in the small, purplish body. The infant (Seymor Cohen) lived...