Word: squawking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gangbusters" has not confined itself to dead lawbreakers. The dramatization of the capture of Massachusetts' murdering Millen Brothers was broadcast prior to their electrocution and many a live but lesser robber, forger and gangster has had his story told. Until last week there had never been a squawk from the criminal...
Labor loomed with a new meaning. At the secret sessions of the Associated Press whose annual meeting overlapped the ANPA's, the AP's perennial President Frank Brett Noyes, publisher of the Washington Star, was quoted as saying, "I have no squawk to make over the decision." Yet nobody doubted that there had been plenty of squawks at the AP's inner council table. Criticism roiled around the handling of the case by AP's counsel, John W. Davis...
...text and a few tabulations were the commercial results of 1936. The company made $6,510,000, as against $3,500,000 in 1935, which was its worst year since 1924. For the rest of his 68-page report Mr. Babst confined himself largely to a heavily-documented squawk about the Government's sugar policy...
...past papers helps to improve the technique of writing under fire. Furthermore, when all papers are returned, the onus of careful correcting rests more heavily on the assistants. For, when no examinations are given back, only the very bad or very serious-minded undergraduate ever lets loose a squawk about his grade...
...second "squawk" concerns "Dodo" itself. Here certainly is an elegant name. Twenty-five years ago at the Naval Academy I was the member of a menagerie which an upperclassman collected from among the lowly plebes for the purpose of mild hazing. My place of honor was, as the "Dodo" bird, no uncertain one. I recall that I condescended to associate, at intervals, with the "Wahoo Wahoo" bird and several other fowl of lesser degree. This lasted about one month - since that time I have not been honored with this title except by one classmate - now dead - and yourself. In fact...