Word: yelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...audiences, let me say that their inclinations are usually painful to civilized people. Characterized by sloppy sentiment, curious changeability, delirium and misplaced loyalties, they are not the reactions of the British masses. After all, the majority of the British people are not those who stand in the streets and yell, and I feel that, while saddened by the necessity of Mr. Baldwin's course, they none the less understand and approve...
...Down goes the nose of the plane. Now, what's the airspeed indicator hand? 200- 250-300, flush! Pressure in the ears. A yell, and they are cleared. The altimeter hand is late, for we are 1,000 feet ahead of it. At 10,000 feet I can make out land and water. Lloyd's Neck looks like the head of a dinosaur and the next peninsula is like a giant cypress tree...
...general theory heretofore concerning the origin of the yell--one which Mr. Rinehart said had no truth in it--was that a lonely youth had conceived the idea of calling his own name up to a vacant room so that the other students would think he was not without friends...
...everything was ready. At 5:28 there was a swish, a snap. Doctors climbed through the supports, felt Bethea's pulse. The spectators closed in. At 5:44½ a. m. physicians pronounced Bethea dead. With a yell the spectators charged from every side, eager hands clawed at the black death hood. In a moment it was torn to shreds. The lucky ones stuffed the bits of black cloth proudly into their pockets. Slowly the crowd straggled away...
...pious artisans glorified God at Chartres and Poitiers, Artist Saint has cooked up messes of egg-yolk, hollyhock, calendula and portulaca. To get a certain yellow, Mr. Saint boiled a cow's hoof, as a medieval manuscript directed. So noisome was the process that Artist Saint had to yell for his sons to carry the bubbling hellbroth away...