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Word: squeaked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some do swear you're often known to squeak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/8/1925 | See Source »

...these unkind words, he heard the dwindling strophe of the heart's small drum, tapping into silence up an empty street. He sat down to write his tone-poem, Francesco da Rimini. Down in Hell's gilded street, the phantoms jostle; winds squeal like demented fiddles; ghosts squeak like dismal flutes; and lonely in the company of lovers who have sinned for love and have been damned for their sin to remember forever the joy of love's delight, Paolo and Francesca embrace in pangs and torment. But Tschaikowsky believed that he had lived his best years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Harp | 12/29/1924 | See Source »

Boston University had the narrowest squeak of Harvard's future opponents. Just six points marked the difference between B. U. and the University of Maine when the referee's whistle ended the game on the Maine team's field. Outplayed in every department of the game, it was a recovery of a Maine fumble in the first quarter inside the Maine 10 yard line that decided the game. The losers outrushed the B. U. eleven, gaining 13 first downs to seven. The B. U. team missed up all of its nine attempts for forward passes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT HARVARD'S FUTURE GRIDIRON OPPONENTS DID SATURDAY | 10/6/1924 | See Source »

...naturally as pigs squeak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 9/24/1924 | See Source »

...Marblehead's annual Art exhibition, is painting No. 1, by John P. Benson. Once port of call for East Indiamen, rich and important, with tea, silks and spices piled in its warehouses, the old town drowses now, lost in the hush of a dream. Wharves rot; rats squeak in deserted storerooms ; tiny pleasure-craft have replaced the tall schooners, rich Summer residents the bustling Tory merchants. However, quaint local traditions, local characters, still survive. There is the Poet Postman, unique Man of Letters, who for 30 years has delivered bills and dreamed of billet-doux, has written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: At Marblehead | 8/18/1924 | See Source »

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