Word: whining
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...think that I ain't a human being? Ya think I don't wanna live? Ya think it's nice to wait in that rotten cell, day after day. week after week, month after month, and see men die, one after another, see lights go dim. hear the whine of that motor, and wait and wait and wait, and die a million times every minute...
...Sept. 13-14, Oct. 11-12, and so on around the calendar of the Polar Year's afternoon twilight, night and morning, each station will waft into the air a big rubber balloon. Hanging from many a balloon will be a small wireless transmitter whose whine will indicate which way the wind blows, to men listening at wireless direction-finders...
...Like Stuart Erwin (who also appears in Two Kinds of Women, comparatively sober), she has distinguished herself by an ability to simulate drunkenness. Erwin is a happy toper, wayward, confident and dazed. Wynne Gibson, when simulating the effects of alcohol, grows querulous and sly. Her voice becomes a gentle whine, her hands dangle nervously as though she hoped to make a gesture, but had forgotten how. Small, slim, with red hair and green eyes, she is exhilarated in Two Kinds of Women, saturated in The Road to Reno, almost numb in Jarnegan...
Should the Legion have its beer, it would not whine about holidays. Harvard, too, would rejoice at Saturday freedom, despite mutterings of the Overseers. Perhaps Curley's calendar distortions would make a subject for a Cambridge mayoralty issue. That Curley could slip through the job is certain. He would not have to search far into his administration to find some one who is adept at the necessary juggling of figures...
...great height, or the echolike undertone that falling water makes, shows from 30 to 42 cycles of vibratory waves. Thunder's pitch is considerably higher, starting at 50 cycles and crashing sometimes as high as 40 cycles above Middle C (261 cycles). Wind may moan at 100 cycles, whine as high as 600 cycles. Not even Niagara can go so low as the big bassoon or the brass tuba...