Word: sirened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conviction shattered then, perhaps -her belief in Mr. Baldwin as an agent of the Higher Power? She paled. Then Mr. Baldwin took his pipe out of his mouth, nodded to his chauffeur. The starter buzzed, the engine roared. At a blast from the limousine's powerful siren horn the crowd wavered. "Come on! Down them!!" shouted some voices; but the limousine broke through as one young miner shouted "Back to your hogs, Baldwin!* You're lucky to get away...
...TIME, Feb. 7, under RUMANIA you specify that the red-haired siren who lured Crown Prince Carol (great-grandson of Queen Victoria) from his Royal and morganatic consorts is a Jewess...
...siren screeched in the U. S. Treasury Building in Washington. Timid clerks rushed into the corridors, craned quaking necks. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Dewey was irked. He had ordered all employes to remain in their offices when the burglar siren sounded, so that guns could sweep the corridors clear of thugs, bandits, etc. Last week's screech was only a test case...
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes-Anita Loos's traveling siren on a business trip...
...characters all spring vividly to life, led by June Walker who, though brunette by birth and nature, offers a perfect performance as the cooing, wide-eyed, traveling siren, Lorelei Lee. Edna Hibbard's saucy nose, jaunty figure and coon-shouting voice add immensely to the personality of Lorelei's hard-boiled girlfriend, Dorothy, upon whose caustic nature has been fathered the echo: "Brunettes prefer gentlemen...