Word: squeal
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...Muriel Vanderbilt Phelps put on her ocelot coat and went out on the lawn of her estate at Middletown, R.I. to bestow the prize (a live turkey) for a charity treasure hunt; to squeal in glee with 500 other socialites while a horde of urchins from Middletown, Newport and neighboring villages chased and caught two small, frightened, buttered pigs...
That in itself means nothing. Small brains do not mean low intelligence. Intelligence shows up in folds, creases and wrinkles of the fore brain. The more complex the convolutions, the more intelligent the creature. The Jervois lady had a simple mind. She could grunt, squeal, gabble but probably could not talk...
...Miss Le Gallienne wrote to the press about it. What she wanted was a pig that would not grow into a hog during the course of the play's run. She preferred a quiet animal that could make its public appearance without wiggling, kicking, snorting. An occasional squeal would be permitted on stage, however, for the only way Alice knows that the Duchess' baby, which she has been holding, is nothing but a pig is by its squeal...
...such times a troupe of performing politicians is needed. War Lord Yen had imported 15 from Nanking, capital of "Nationalist" President Chiang Kaishek. Headed by Wang Ching-wei, leader of the Left faction at Nanking, the 15 troupers announced (after the band had ceased to squeal and groan) that President Yen is today the true "Nationalist," that "Nationalist" President Chiang is no longer a "Nationalist...
Round about Fez, Morocco, where the fez was invented and is still worn, thousands of drums began to beat monotonously one night last week, thousands of pipes to squeal, and a million Morocco Negroes to cavort and celebrate the 240th anniversary of the mass marriage from which they all sprang...