Word: wail
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...yesterday's Boston Herald. A telephone call, which specified house and street, but not the need, sent an engine of the Atlantic fire department clanging out into the snow. The destination was quickly attained, but, before the men could inquire into the cause of their summons, a low wail descended from a snowy tree. Like Androcles, the fire fighters hesitated. But the cry, like the unspecific lament of a hoot owl, did not betray whether it sprang from bird, beast, or fish. Yet it darted so pitifully down that the perplexed rescuers raised a ladder against the tree and sent...
From the dock where the disgruntled strikers stood, a wail went up. There were shaking of fists and baffled execrations...
...shall I get my child to sleep?" wail many mothers. Last week Dr. E. J. Huenekens of Minneapolis discussed this problem in The Journal of the American Medical Association. He declared that it was often the inept tactics of just such wailing overanxious parents that keep the child awake and derange its nervous system. "I know nothing more pitiful," said he, "than the frequently precocious child brought up in the adult atmosphere of the typical family hotel." He classified two common varieties of harmful parents...
Peter Augustus Jay, U. S. Minister to Rumania, soon to become Ambassador to the Argentine Republic (TIME, Mar. 30), was instructed by the State Department to make one last wail for money owed to the U. S. and to U. S. corporations...
...longer will Harvard men be forced to sit in silence and bear the sad drones of the Yale "Undertaker's Song." B. S. Cogan '23, ex-president of the University Glee Club, has written an answer to the melancholy wail which has chilled Harvard spectators at many Harvard Yale football games...