Word: yowls
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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Conductor Damrosch beamed. At last the throaty and macabre yowl of modern America was about to be lifted into a new melodic line; patrons were about to learn that there is no modern music worth mentioning except the flawed melodies that a very old barroom piano, operated by a coin, can send tilting, spilling, staggering, into the languor of a summer twilight...
...Wills, in the greatest tennis exhibition of her life, ran out a love set, allowed only two games in the third. When the final point was scored, she yielded for the first time in her career to the impulse of savage exultation that makes the Indian prance, the schoolboy yowl, the boxer shake his gloves over his head. She threw down her racket and leaped in air and cried out shrilly before she crossed to shake the hand of Miss McKane...
Last week, the Italian Treasury published a list of income taxpayers and the incomes on which they pay taxes. The yowl that went up was commensurate with that which was heard in the U. S. last October (TiME...