Word: squealings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...transportation. Competitors suffered. Also like the elder Mr. Rockefeller, he made legitimate money by avoiding wastes and making savings in his business. Philip D. Armour I invented the scheme of utilizing every part of a slaughtered animal ?flesh, hide, hair, horns, hoofs, bones, bristles, offal, everything "except the squeal." But more than this, he belonged to the band of giants of his time?Henry H. Rogers (Standard Oil); John W. Gates, speculator from California; August Belmont, Charles T. Yerkes and Thomas Fortune Ryan who managed street railways to their own profits. Those of these men who still live have...
...Heflin: I have just read the Congressional Record of Jan. 28. I am glad my shaft struck home! It pierced your thick hide. It made you squeal...
...Committees and the various trials that grew out of his election to the Senate, indicated that he had some zealous, but unwise friends, who were mainly responsible for the nasty situations which developed after his election, and that he, in line with his conduct all through life, would not squeal on them in order to save himself, and these friends were not courageous enough to take the burden on their own shoulders...
When the public goes to a repertory theatre it knows what it's in for, and it shouldn't squeal. If it gets more than its money's worth, it goes home in a pink haze of pleasure. If it achieves no more than a notion of the excellence of a great play, the price of admission may be written on its budget as Educational...
...creature twisted this way and that, emitting sharp, tiny screams of pain. Down from the trees ran the other squirrels. They surrounded the dog and curled their whiskered lips, making a snarling noise. Now it was the hound-dog's turn to cringe; it was his turn to squeal with agony as the squirrel under his paw twisted around, bit his forefoot-as the other squirrels sprang upon his flanks, biting, gouging, snarling, tearing. A boy rushed put with a stick and drove the squirrels away. The dog was taken to the Angell Animal Hospital, Brookline, Mass. (Such...