Word: wailful
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Outside the News office in the long night, Paul would listen to the lonely wail of the locomotives that brought the world to Ada-the engines of Santa Fe; the Frisco ; the Oklahoma City, Ada & Atoka R.R. that took Ada to the State capital 85 miles away. Inside the News office Paul boiled down facts & figures about the teeming life of Oklahoma's oil wells, zinc and lead mines, cotton and alfalfa fields, stockyards and cement mills into daily news for Ada's readers...
...Britton discovered a wolf asleep on her porch swing. In Los Angeles, Councilman Harold Harby invented a device to keep roosters from crowing by making it impossible for them to stretch their necks; when he tried it on a rooster, he found that it changed the crowing into a wail. In Clarendon, Tex., Mrs. Don Grady, fixing a chicken for dinner, discovered inside it a diamond she had lost four months be fore...
...hail of American bombs over Italy exposed a unique facet of Axis frustration. From Italy went up a wail, spread by the German news agency...
BILL RYAN'S familiar wail, "Never again" will still echo in the East End of Grays for the move order applied mostly to the lads in Middle Grays. . . It's not a play on words for when HOMER SMITH got to bat the other day he really did clout a "home: in that game between Seven and Six. . . he made Seven come eleven. . . ALTER OLLEN ran another Smoker for Charlie the other nite and he surely must have made enough money by now to get married. . . We are still waiting for a week to go by when BURWELL PALM will...
...gone to the Yard Concert to see if Fair Harvard and Radcliffe girls were still the same. They were. Then the slashing wail of the alarm, and Vag watched bright jackets and colorful skirts and the rest of the peaceful Spring scene, kaleidoscope-like, smashed, and the Yard was left to the men of war, and the pigeons who had been there before and would be there afterwards...