Word: tweet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Distwacting. In Detroit, Patrolman Louis Schlosser was ordered to stick to one type of whistling after the city council got a written protest from distracted office workers who complained: "One minute the whistle will go tweet-twoot-twoot-tweet. Just as you get used to that it will go twoot-tweet-tweet-twoot...
...Harlowmen, two linesmen, Dick Pfister and Burgy Ayres, who until today have heard the referee's starting tweet from secure positions on the bench, will this afternoon held down berths of the opening lineup. Pfister has been recalled from the ranks of the blocking backs to plug a gap at right guard. Ayres gets the nod over Lone Star Diets mostly because of his more accurate snap-backs. Diets has shown himself a lion on defense in heavy duty games thus far when Ayres was out with an injury.Pete Elsor's smashing play has won him a regular starting berth...
...latest fangled radio sets in areas around New York City, Boston, Washington, Columbus (Ohio), Chicago and Milwaukee, nowadays enjoy radio entertainment that is static-free, interference-free, does not wobble, fade or burst at the seams. The enthusiasts say that they hear music faithful to the topmost tweet, the bottommost woof; that speech seems to come from the next chair, instead of the next telephone booth; that if an announcer should scratch a match, listeners would hear it burst into flame; that between numbers there is no hum, no crackle, just black, velvety nothing. Said one marveling first listener...