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Word: sirened (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moment only, the moon escapes from heavy clouds to shine on the face of Don Juan* as he leaps overboard to swim ashore. There is dialog in the scene also, but it is negligible. A triumph of stagecraft has been achieved with a few lights and a howling siren. A poet's art is applied to mechanism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Flecker Fragments | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

...brass bell yapped; a siren hooted like a gull. Police-chief Richard 0. Zober of Passaic in a red flivver. "Disperse that crowd!" He took a metal-covered sphere from his pocket; threw it; threw two more; gray gas sidled into the dusk. Tear bombs! . . . More bells, more hooting. A fire engine. Another. Enormous silver rods of water battered the hatless women, the men who had no overcoats. The crowd eddied, broke, swirled down the street. Policemen dashed after, clubbing backs, heads, shoulders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: In Passaic | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

Dance Madness is about as bad as its title. There is a wife, there is a husband, there is a cabaret siren. It is played for light comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Feb. 15, 1926 | 2/15/1926 | See Source »

...official automobile to the naval school, while crowds skipped away from under the car's wheels as it bore down upon them. The official party boarded the yacht Adhara and steamed through the traffic of the port, while for 30 minutes every vessel in the harbor screamed its siren in delight. A landing was made at La Blanco, Frigorifico, a great "meat factory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Wow | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Great Trial | 7/20/1925 | See Source »

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