Word: wailes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kitt. And since Miss Kitt is sensational, that should be enough to guarantee the revue some sort of immortality. A dusky beauty, Miss Kitt is as feline as her name, sometimes playful, often with her claws showing. Her voice is equally unpredictable--a mellow huskiness which rises to a wail like fingernails on a blackboard. When she stalks on stage, it is not to win the favor of her audience. Instead, she toys languorously with her show-stopping song "Monotonous" and the result is electrifying...
...only sound in Lahore was the banshee wail of the curfew siren and the tramp of hobnailed military boots on the darkened, empty streets...
...year-old perched precariously on the back of a chaise longue; a young woman postured in leg-revealing shorts. Upstairs a sleek blonde feigned innocent sleep. In one cellar, pajama-clad parents had herded their kids into wooden FCDA shelters, as if they had just been awakened by the wail of a warning siren. In every room, dummy Americans waited for the works...
Cash registers jungle, Johnny Ray drones over the crowd, and children wail for their mummies. Everyone hurries...
...country club." But there are other, highly readable things: a sly reminiscence of a month spent with Upton Sinclair in a Utopian-socialist community; a group of sketches about his apprenticeship as a reporter ; a picture of Jack London trying to read Henry James and bursting out with a wail: "Do any of you know what all this junk is about...