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Word: squeals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accidentally killed the offender. The blunt ritual of the courts sent him to prison for ten years. There, in the cancerous association of evil men, he learned the criminal code. Six years later, when he happened to witness a murder within the prison walls, he refused to "squeal'' and was hurled to the dungeons for the third degree. Harassed, broken, he slew his inquisitor and himself. He did not know that the warden had signed an order for his pardon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 14, 1929 | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...Consider the skunk. . .yet Solomon was not arrayed like one of these." If you don't believe this, pick up one and get the surprise of your life. He will not bite, or scratch, or squeal, or kick--the skunk is as gentle as a breeze...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Apropos the Skunk | 1/10/1929 | See Source »

Some 150 Manhattan speakeasies paid Down-Shaker Harris some $25,000 over a period of several weeks. He played the game at both ends, often telephoning to local Prohibition headquarters to "squeal" on proprietors he had found obdurate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Downshaker | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...night long Harvard Square leaps in over his windowsill. The lights glitter, gleam and tirelessly climb the wall, seeking new shadings between that illumination which merely arrests his attention and that which renders him temporarily blind. And there is the trolley's long descending squeal, the trucks that shift gears explosively and use rocket propulsion, the milkmen that talk shop. Then, through the hazy doze that comes with dawn, comes the sound of a bell that is rung. It has been truly said! When bedlam comes in at the winodw, sentiment flies out by the door...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HEARD IN A CLOISTER | 9/27/1928 | See Source »

Strange Interlude-FIVE-HOUR FATHOMING OF FEMALE FRAILTY BY THEATRE GUILD WHILE SHUBERTS SQUEAL MELODRAMA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Headliners in Manhattan | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

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