Word: squeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...battle is on. Smart politician that he is, Roosevelt could not keep the inflation issue from coming to the front. Since his inauguration it has hung ominously in the background. The inflationists have never been very quiet, and within recent weeks their meagre squeal has grown into a major howl. But only in the last week have any considerable "sound money" jitters become noticeable. First Barney Baruch, adviser extraordinary to the New Deal, pronounces his opposition, and then comes the electric shock of Professor Sprague's desertion and condemnation of the Administration. Now the Federal Reserve Advisory Council intones...
...period, as flagrant as a copy of the Police Gazette and as forthright as a set of brass knuckles. Good shot: a terrific fight with ashcans, fists, brickbats, blackjacks, between Chuck Connors' fire company and Steve Brodie's, while the hopeless Chinese in a burning tenement squeal for help...
...reels. Graves a chance to show that he is not a coward all the time. A silly but kinetic melodrama, War Correspondent is distinguished by the presence of the most revolting Chinaman who has ever appeared in cinema. Fang (Tetsu Komai) is so horrible that his prisoners begin to squeal and jabber as soon as they look at him. His table manners are such that when he gobbles the hindquarters of a pig he seems to be a cannibal...
...waggles her mouth, spurts milk. Snuffles is a sow, Betsy and Percy her bloated shoats. Biddy is a hen who has traveled to England (TIME, Aug. 11, 1930). Biddy and Belle phonographically declare what they like to eat. Snuffles pleads for clean pastures. The shoats squeal...
...quizzical beady eyes or grunting angrily he is sent running over a long viaduct to the packing house. When he reaches the killing floor he is hoisted up on a giant wheel by his left foot, delivered to a conveyor. Head down, tongue out, tail hanging down his back, squealing in terror, he is carried along until a husky man with a spear-like knife makes the deft throat-cutting thrust which kills him. Then an intricate web of knives scrapes off his hair, Government inspectors slice his neck glands to look for signs of tuberculosis. A knife cleaves...