Word: yelps
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...directed its casual litanies towards the Atlantic Monthly there has existed a feeling in certain quarters that there was one undergraduate mood or type which was receiving no adequate expression. The answer would appear to be found in the Hound and Horn, whose bay is akin to a yelp from the Village and whose blast is more dulcet than shrill. Not a popular magazine in content, in fact apparently somewhat proud of its aloofness, its appeal is directed to the denizens of the candle-lit tea rooms, those flery spirits to whom James Joyce is an immortal and Ezra Pound...
...approved by the Senate, since he thinks that the American Debt Funding Commission is as competent as any body that could be selected to determine Italy's capacity to pay. Towards the close of the interview the President's white collie, which was present, let out an agonized yelp. "He does not," said the President to the newspapermen, "like to have you get on his feet...
...back into her slipper, wrenched once more, and once more it slipped out, causing her to lose her balance, plunge her foot into the tar which gripped her stocking as she wrestled, dragged it half off. For a moment she balanced, storklike, on a single strut, then, with a yelp, fell face forward into the tar. A dozen men ran to her. With a jerky, united effort they dragged her to the sidewalk...
...chorus whom these trappings adorn are the comeliest that have stretched the necks of metropolitan audiences this year. Each one would be the ace of any ordinary revue ensemble. White has again wisely limited his coryphees to intoning their lyrics clearly rather than blurring their point in the yelp of the usual song. Therefore the chorus scores one of the spontaneous hits of the performance by boldly asserting its reasons for not being one of the ubiquitous troupes of Tiller girls...
...corrupt, a small but determined band of citizens might possibly feel that there was no alternative to taking upon itself the execution of justice, and proudly abiding the consequences. But does Mr. Rosenblatt really think so badly of Omaha's administration, or see in a herd of men that yelp themselves into blood-lust, and then scuttle like rabbits, her true patriots? We ask leave to doubt...