Word: whining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moment he lost his carefree look. But to show his supreme faith in childhood, he stooped down, pinched her check, and walked on with a sigh. Two seconds later he was stopped dead by the plop of a snowball in the back of his neck and an carsplitting whine, as though some one had been kicked in the shins, and his 'petite' cried, "Say, what are you trying to do: make...
...almost inaudible whine, fainter than a mosquito, rose to my ears from the back axle. Only harsh critics would have heard...
...Edna May Oliver. The plot: Robert Montgomery, non-marrying lady-killer, is talked into marrying Joan Crawford. Because he cannot stop lady-killing, Joan piously makes him an apparent cuckold in public. This reforms him and, in what passes for high breeding in Hollywood, these two snarl, mutter, sneer, whine, shout their love at one another...
...Irish Free State, last week, fishing. Among the 186,000 acres in various parts of the British Isles that he owns is that part of the river, Lismore Castle high above it, and the fishing rights. It is reported that His Grace was enjoying himself mightily, listening to the whine of the reel, the swish of line and leader, when from the willows on the bank rose a strange figure wearing a mask...
...Maine farmer sits at his radio of an evening, impressed by the realistic sound of thunger, gunshots, the gear-whine of cars; and he says to his wife "by gorry, that's good," little thinking that the inventor was a Greek of the fifth century...