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...lamp, a strong light. He was, at once, capable of a passionate cursing and a low-voiced impressive tranquillity of confidence. 'Damn you, sir,' he said to an officer who came galloping up, crying out some bad news above the roar of battle, 'don't yell at me!' In such moments of intensity he often leaned forward over his horse's neck and spoke with the utmost softness...
...lost child. The wife will sit down and cry while the husband cleans the kid up. . . . The coops [on the beach where the lost children are first brought] are just wire. That gives everyone a chance to give you advice. 'Oh!' they'll yell at you. 'You don't know how to treat children; you just let them cry.' And do you know what they're liable to do if a child in the coop keeps on crying? . . . Why, some one is just as apt as not to walk up to the cage...
They won again when Hannibal, their largest and fiercest lion, got into a cage which a keeper was scrubbing. The keeper "did the one thing that would save his life. He took the lion completely by surprise. He emitted a blood-curdling yell, sprang into the air and with all his strength hurled his water-filled pail and his wet mop full in the face of the astonished beast. Hannibal was so unnerved by this attack that he tried to beat a hasty retreat over the slippery floor. His feet flew out from under him and he turned an undignified...
...still we had to capture a ship. Finally we sighted a steamer, and sailed over to meet her. We put a long piece of stove piping over the end of our old gun, loaded it, and placed it ready for action. I scattered my men around the ship to yell out orders, because," he said with a smile, "one must have something to scare the enemy...
...make all this more vivid Stalin envisioned what he conceives to be the current consternation in Capitalist countries. "Look," he cried, "how some well-known and honorable gentlemen rave and yell against our party?Fish of the United States, Churchill of England and Poincare of France. Why do they yell and rave? Because the policy of our party is correct and because it is achieving victory after victory...