Word: squeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paddy Mack, Boston wrestler: a bout with one Mustapha Pasha; when a spectator tossed a lighted cigaret into Mustapha Pasha's open mouth, causing him to squeal, choke, lie flat on his back; in Hollywood...
Startled by a squeal, Horace Holden turned his head, saw a sight that throttled him. He stamped on his brakes and lunged toward the back seat. Old Laborer Smith was pressing a knife blade against the throat of Spitz Fluffy...
...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...