Word: jangledness
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At daybreak the White Star liner Olympic, 23-year-old sister ship of the Titanic, picked up faintly the signal of No. 117, set a course for it. Almost seven hours later a horrified shout burst from a lookout. Bells jangled, the four giant screws threshed madly in reverse, seamen...
Up in Scotland, tired and wet after a day's fishing, Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain changed his socks and sat down with a warm drink. The telephone jangled.
One noonday last week in a thousand newspaper offices, when the automatic news tickers jangled the signal, FLASH! and copy boys raced to news desks with yellow slips reading CALVIN COOLIDGE DEAD, a thousand news editors knew instantly what to do. But the editor of the New York Morning Telegraph...
Only after the Rotterdam had left Boulogne, where all passengers but one got off, and was steaming toward Southampton did the crew learn that they were not headed for home. They mutinied, in a thoroughly Dutch manner. There was no shouting, no shooting. The Black Gang (engine room crew) just...
While the President of the Chamber jangled his big brass dinner bell for order, Aristide Briand climbed into the rostrum to reply. Scarcely glancing at the red leather portfolio of notes before him, Br'er Briand, calm, self-assured, talked for an hour and 45 minutes. He reviewed his entire...