Word: squealed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that work at the present time. From this quarter can be heard a moan, from that quarter comes a squeal, and from somewhere else comes a vigorous objection. Two outcries were heard last week...
...dance. There is no doubt that he does dance. His dancing of Alger's "Hobby Horse Hop" stopped the opera completely and several hundred graduates broke up the seats; later, in a savage interpretation of the Charleston, to the accompaniment of an obligato on Mr. Moynahan's squeal-horn. Mr. Wilson did things with his knee-joints that didn't seem at all reasonable. There is no use trying to pin his charm down to paper, but you'll come out of "Laugh It Off" raving about Mr. Wilson, so why shouldn't we? If this be Sophomores...
...prime. In his mind, at 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...
...been frequently remarked of the Chicago packers that they left nothing of the pig but his squeal. Evidently Henry Ford has taken the packers as a model, for the salvage operations in his factories are said to be unusually efficient and complete, and productive of great economies. According to a recent report, the salvage squad of 417 men dispose each day of 392 tons of steel trimmings, 190 tons of baled steel, and 153 tons of cast iron borings. In addition, it saves about 91/2 tons of paper, several tons of miscellaneous metals and other material, and about...
...will be observed that the authorities thought playing cards about five times worse than lying, and regarded the ginmill habit as only half as bad as refusing to "squeal on another student...