Word: wailful
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...disinterested upholders of American ideals who have joined pocket-books in opposition to the Tugwell-Copeland Food and Drug Bill are slowly but surely completing a masterpiece in the history of effective lobbies. Following the accepted formula, these patriots first set up a tremendous wail, protesting in the name of all the well known "American rights" and an individualism whose ruggedness apparently claims the right to poison with governmental approbation. Failing this first move, they have now stooped to the more effective course of preventing public mention of the topic until wavering congressmen can be persuaded that it is worth...
...Comrade Kaganovich almost as big and almost as numerous as those of Comrade Stalin. On the Politbureau of the Communist Party which rules Russia, Stalin is No. 1, Kaganovich No. 2. When the Five-Year Plan was wallowing among blunders Comrade Kaganovich coined an immortal, all-explanatory slogan, "Why wail over broken eggs when we are making an omelet!" Last week this potent Bolshevik let fly at the regime of a state with which Russia is on diplomatic and officially friendly terms, the Third Reich of Jew-baiting Adolf Hitler...
...agonized wail of police sirens called Manhattan's attention to one of the most important art events of the season last week. Nearly 4,000 persons jammed their way into the Museum of Modern Art with a popping of flashlights and a grinding of sound cameras that made it look like a Hollywood opening. Totally unable to see what the museum had to show, the guests milled slowly up & down stairs and looked at one another. Besides Soviet Ambassador Alexander Antonovich Troyanovsky, they included: Mary Pickford, Otto H. Kahn, Dolores Del Rio, Leopold Stokowski, Henry Seidel Canby, Lord Duveen...
...Alas, alas for debating" has been the rallying cry for a certain group among our intelligentsia ever since the first slipping of forensics as a popular indoor sport. The wail rises sporadically and wholeheartedly from small groups of individuals, but formal debating just does not seem to pack the punch that carries widespread interest among the present-day undergraduates. Oral expression even as every other feature of our social, political, and economic existence, is in a constant state of flux, and for the time being at least debating is staggering under...
...seventh major temblor hit at 7:55 p. m. Added to the nightmare were the screams of the injured and dying, the wail of fire-engine sirens. Fires had broken out, fed by sprung gas mains. Luckily most water mains held. But the Huntington Park High School had to be dynamited when fire got beyond control. At Watts, the city hall, school, postoffice and Odd Fellows building lay in desolate heaps. At Artesia another school burned. At San Diego radios went off and the First National Bank's burglar alarm went on. Throughout the area trains had all halted...