Word: squealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pronounced mee-now and so named by Owner Hal Price Headley after his little daughter, whose impatience at his kissing his wife first on entering the house caused her to habitually stamp and squeal...
Said Amos to Andy: "Dis lady was tellin' me dat de lady what writ Gone Wid de Win is gointa write a squeal, twice as big and twice as long." Delighted Atlantans rushed to telephone Author Margaret Mitchell Marsh, talked instead to Husband John R. Marsh. Said he: "You can tell Amos and Andy she isn't working on a 'squeal' or a 'sequel...
...that they are un-Chinese in important respects. If they ever laid hands on the Dictator, whose troops have killed thousands of Chinese Communists, they would not be troubled in the least by his refusal to say anything before they either chopped off his head or made him squeal by administering "the 10,000 Deaths...
...elephants began to squeal and stamp. Throughout the zoo rose a jungle din of roars, howls, screams, snarls. Rudolph Bjork and another keeper seized an iron rod and an elephant hook, began beating and prodding at the maddened beast through the paddock bars. His little eyes bloodred, Wally flourished his trunk at them, went on stamp'ng and gouging his victim. Guards scurried up, stood with rifles cocked to shoot the female elephants if they should stampede. It was too late to do anything for Ed Brown. His body was in four pieces when the keepers finally drove Wally...
...were kept secret for 48 hours (to allow for their transmission and simultaneous release in Ottawa) the howls of aggrieved lobbyists had already begun a serenade in Washington. Whether there had been some leak or whether they knew that tariff cuts were due them, the industries affected began to squeal. Lumbermen protested that they were being "sold down the river," dairymen that it would be a crime to spoil their "scientific" tariff. Cattlemen, Maine men (potatoes), maple syrup men joined in the chorus...