Word: wail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...haunts is not a monster of ferocity. He is rather a mild-mannered vegetarian wandering around in the highest reaches of the equatorial mountains of Africa. His terrible war cry, so horrendously described by du Chaillu and other passionate French writers was nothing but a rather pitiable semi-human wail. He cannot be made to fight unless cornered. Mr. Akeley, on one of his expeditions took two women and a child up into the gorilla country without danger. And big game hunters have been invading this country and killing the harmless creatures by the score, until now there are probably...
...compromise-offer of a 5% increase in salaries, which would bring them up to from $60 to $90 per week. If the deadlock continues, Sept. 1st will find our eastern playhouses deprived of the dulcet rustle of violins as the lovers dally in the garden, and of the eerie wail of the clarinet as the butler hides the revolver in the sideboard...
When a few days ago some two hundred million people were cheated out of theirteen days of their lives by the change of the Orthodox Greek Churches from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, the fearful wail that must have gone forth can easily be imagined by the Daylight Saving "grousers" At the same time it may have reminded people of what an arbitrary and imperfect thing the Gregorian calendar is. Although Caesa, and Pope Gregery put it inot fair harmony with the solar year, it is full of odd quirks. For instance it begirs on January first instead...
Coincident with the opening of the third successive World's Series exclusive to New York, came (and not without reason) a wail from Boston. The Boston clubs are to be " investigated." The strength of the great New York teams has come mainly as a result of shrewd marketing...
...wail of the roque players is loud in the land. They are too good. The game is too easy. They are rolling through their wickets before they come to them...