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Open fields on Long Island reverberated with the furious drumming of horses' hoofs. Riders shouted and strained. There was heard the solid impact of bodies, the crash of weapons, the slap and squeak of straining leather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Four | 8/11/1924 | See Source »

...again: Mme. Walska has no voice. She has some pretty but very small tones in her lower voice, good enough for small parlor singing, but her upper register is so weak and thin that when she essays the big and loud singing parts of opera she emits a shrill squeak. Nevertheless, the lady, with her enormously wealthy husband supporting her, has entered upon a new and spectacular campaign to achieve success in opera. Last season she put on several concerts in Mid-Western America. These were all failures and received universal dispraise. Mme. Walska, despairing of America, took herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mme. Walska | 7/9/1923 | See Source »

...hear the announcer's boots squeak as he steps forward...

Author: By Robert Benchley and President OF Lampoon, S | Title: OF ALL THINGS | 11/19/1921 | See Source »

...infallible instinct of Theodore Roosevelt has given us a name for all the shapes of treachery that squeak and gibber in the American streets and eke sometimes from American platforms. These are the shadow Huns, the forerunners of a solid flesh and blood reality--or blood and iron, as it prefers to describe itself. All flesh is as grass, and grass is a thing for which the German sword has no use, except it snatch at a few wisps to wipe its blade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 10/6/1917 | See Source »

...jolly a crew as ever went forth from these classic halls to discomfort Yale and back their alma mater. As the train moved out of the depot, cheer after cheer went up from every voice, the manly basses of the upper-classmen being occasionally interspersed with the timid squeak of the freshmen. People stared and glared and wondered what it all meant, but when informed by the ubiquitous mucked that "Dem was de Hairvards" their wonder and astonishment gave way to admiration. Stories, jokes and songs beguiled the time, until finally the train, puffing and blowing with pride...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On Board the "Pilgrim." | 11/30/1887 | See Source »

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