Word: wailing
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...beaten track. Then there was Gabriel Faure, the French man who transmitted his fragile, elusive style to the more popular Maurice Ravel. Every song had its mood subtly, surely conveyed. Toward the end a ghoulish piece by Modernist Alban Berg (Wozzeck) was done so effectively that a sudden wail which came from the audience struck people at first as an overtone which be longed there. But it was a listener taken with a fit of epilepsy...
...soon as all the bells get going, led by old No. 15, windows are flung open in Leverett, Winthrop, Adams, and Claverly* Houses, and even in Lowell House itself. Students whistle and shriek, alarm clocks ring; and everybody wails "Rinehart!"--the old Harvard wail. The bedlam lasts for about ten minutes, after which the High Tablers take a stiff drink of ink and go back to work. --New Yorker...
This was puzzling. They speeded up the instrument. Lord Tennyson roared angrily. They tried another adjustment. Firmly he repeated his wail: "Oojee Boojee! Oojee Boojee...
Albert Einstein's sartorial negligence still drives his wife to tears. Her latest wail: Under pretense of being a guest at tea, a friendly tailor measured the professor's size by sight, made him a suit. When the tailor presented the finished suit and explained the ruse, the professor lost his temper (a rare event), chased the tailor from the Einstein's Berlin apartment, refused to wear the suit. He gives his clothes money to charity. Last week he was vacationing at Caputh near Potsdam, wearing white linen pajamas, no socks, no shoes...
...hooked up with your presentation of "The March of Time' (TIME, March 9, p. 63) that the great open spaces of the West (not to say interested readers of your great weekly out here) had been left entirely out of the picture. How come? And to complete my wail may I further say that the commendatory and congratulatory comments by subscribers and others in Letters (TIME, March 23) on the first of these broadcasts served only to add to my anguish? Both San Francisco and Los Angeles (also Portland, Ore.) are full-page advertisers in your periodical...