Word: squawking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Essential Experience Sirs: As an uncooked college undergraduate who for many years thought babies were found by their mammas under geraniums, and as a mere male whose interest in child-birth will be forever academic, I ought to keep my mouth shut about Dr. Nielsen's unhappy squawk anent the use of analgesics, but I can't. Upon reading her statement (TIME, May 25) that the pains of child-birth have been grossly exaggerated in the minds of American women and that a woman's personality may be damaged if the normal course of child-bearing...
...have to wait another five years for the next picture, for Chaplin vehicles are not street cars. Chaplin is an anachronism; having learned the art of pantomime for the silents, he isn't going to give it up because some fool invented a way to make the flickers squawk. And being old-fashioned, he restores slapstick to its lusty youth. It dazzles by the force of its mad pollmell succession. The tempo is definitely stepped up way above normal; the old trick for preventing lag is remembered...
When the White House had announced that Franklin Roosevelt was to duplicate the unique performance of Woodrow Wilson in addressing a night session of Congress,* Republicans had sent up a terrific squawk. Shrieked Republican Chairman Henry Prather Fletcher: "Politics!" To secure unanimous consent to reconvene, the Democratic House leadership had to pay the Republicans a small price: a GOPhilippic by tubby, pudding-jowled Minority house Leader Bertrand Hollis ("Bert") Snell, which was also broadcast. Swelling with professional resentment at the President's extraordinary program, the New Yorker, who shepherds the forlorn 104 Republicans of the House, cried: "Why this...
...example to Benito Mussolini of how to bear the white man's burden, all this was superb. Egypt has not been permitted to join the League of Nations and therefore cannot squawk at Geneva. King Fuad is a fat, docile puppet. The farce that Egypt is an "independent kingdom" has been played so long that everyone has his lines pat (TIME, Dec. 10). But last week Egyptians boiled with demands that their lickspit Premier Tewfik Nessim Pasha should at least make the turning to Alexandria into Britain's main Mediterranean war base the occasion for wangling some heavy...
...Mediterranean waters including those of Greece, Il Duce, without asking Greek permission as Britons do, suddenly had three Italian war boats drop anchor in three major Greek ports. Local officials frantically wired Athens and the statesmen and militarists of Greece dropped their own feuds to unite in a loud squawk of protest...