Word: squeaking
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...main trouble with it all is that it's no longer Bleak House. Its story might just squeak through as something called Lady Dedlock's Secret, though even the book's main plot gets misted over, besides being by now almost too stagy for the stage. And though the drastic cutting at times has its points-it largely silences sweet, virtuous-Esther Summerson, that English cousin of Elsie Dinsmore-it far oftener has its penalties. All but vanished are the things that really make Bleak House notable-its satire on the Court of Chancery, its vast, varied...
Standing Offer. George Higgins never got to college himself; he only managed to squeak through high school by working after class as a janitor and a soda jerk. After that he struck out for Detroit, became a star salesman for General Motors, finally earned enough money to buy a Ferndale agency of his own. Then, one day, a teacher from Lincoln High School happened to tell him about a "mighty deserving poor boy" who wanted to go to college. That night George Higgins decided that the boy should go, and that he should take the responsibility of paying the college...
Football fans who watched the varsity squeak by Colgate Saturday were wondering yesterday just how long it would take Dartmouth to catch on to the Crimson's single-wing...
...gala grounds went Aneurin Bevan to provide the kind of fighting oratory that goes with the Miners' Gala the way bubble goes with squeak. Girls with hats bearing mottoes, "Cuddle me quick" or "It's now or never," stormed the distinguished guest with autograph books. Miners pranced past with placards that told of deprivations of the past and displayed likenesses of men who had helped in the climb from poverty. All that seemed far away in happy Durham: today miners are a privileged class in Britain. Because Britain so badly needs them, they get better rations and more...
Park Row is grandiosely dedicated to American journalism and journalists, but the roar of the Globe's presses comes out as only a squeak...