Word: drowning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toward the end of the rally, Harvard men lurking in the shadows stepped forward and tried to drown out the proceedings with songs and a cheer: "What do we eat? Dog meat...
Cool and confident in his superior strength and wisdom one day last week, Henri Villette, a 67-year-old barrelmaker of Alencon, clapped an unwanted kitten into a musette bag and set out for the Sarthe River to drown it. On the river's bank he slipped and fell. The kitten crawled to safety. Henri's drowned body was found later by local firemen...
...orderly, "peaceable" demonstration, protesting the appearance of Communist-tuned Singer Paul Robeson at a picnic ground outside of Peekskill, N. Y. True, the veterans of Westchester County had brought along enough brass bands to drown out a full opera company and enough pickets to keep any traffic from getting through. But there was to be no rough stuff, the leaders promised. Then the veterans, 500 strong, started down the road leading to the picnic grove itself...
...kitchen work, and you don't cook in public." In July, Piatigorsky went to the coast for a second session. Then in Chicago, they took two sessions to test Ravinia's temperamental microphones. Said Pianist Rubinstein: "With this mike, I play what is fortissimo and drown Jascha. But what should I do? Play mouse? I go crazy if I hold back and go nibble-nibble; fortissimo is not like a mouse...
...going to win not only acquittal but vindication in the trial. But Stryker sounded like a man trying not so much to vindicate his client as to get him off. He fled from accusing facts, or brushed them off with a sneer. Seemingly counting on sheer noise to drown out doubts, he assaulted the jury with windblown oratory...