Word: squealing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...oldtime schoolboy technique where one blithe spirit would put a pig in the Bursar's office and none but the pig would "squeal"-what of that technique, where Hardihood was learned through punishment and Eternal Friendships were bound with bonds of silence...
Mysteriously appearing from beneath the stage, the jazz orchestra leader stands on his unseen pedestal, raises his baton. To the elfing ripple of piano, the squeal of clarinet, the deep-throated protest of the bass saxaphone, and the triumphant laughter of the trumpet, the great gray house curtain rises slowly into the flies. Vanishing, it reveals the show curtain, pride of the company, whether of an appetite for clean fun in the academic halls there depicted, and a justifiable pride in this curtain which creates in advance the collegiate atmosphere for what Grantland Rice though "the only really convincing college...
...millions of waves speeding silently through the box each second to leave few enough oscillations for audibility. (The highest number of waves that the ordinary human ear can hear is close to 30,000 a second.) And just as a radio amateur can make a cheap receiving set squeal by moving his hand about the unprotected parts and thus altering the electrical tension of the whole set, just so Professor Theremin altered the electro tension of the electro-magnet fields within his box. The precision with which he built his contrivance permitted him to extract, not amateur squeals, but harmonious...
...Shelby, N. C., one James Ledbetter, 7 years old, was nursing a small pig with a bottle. First the pig slobbered gently upon the hand of George Ledbetter. Then the pig became hungry and began to squeal. James Ledbetter pinched the pig's nose, cuffed the pig's ear, pulled the pig's tail, used a bad word. Then he smacked the pig's nose with all his might. At this the pig squealed more loudly and sadly. James Ledbetter went into his grandfather's house, seized a large rifle, pushed the muzzle close...
...shack in the woods near Syracuse, N. Y., students of Cazenovia Seminary smoked in furtive privacy. Last week, startled, they learned that Student Theodore Kensicki, 17-year-old aspirant to the ministry, was about to "squeal" on them. Eight of the smokers lured Student Kensicki with soft words to a lonely spot. While he kicked, lunged, writhed, they tore off his clothes, scrubbed his skin raw and. bleeding with a wire brush. Into his sorry scratches they then rubbed iodine. They left Student Kensicki screaming with pain, minus five teeth. Soon they left the seminary, suspended by the president...