Word: scream
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Typical bit of BBC whimsey which will be aired on the show: three actors will stand before a mike talking while an announcer circles them preparatory to sticking one of them with a pin. All three will scream, and listeners will be asked to tell which one was stuck...
...talks will not be attempts to wave the flag or to make the eagle scream," Dennett guaranteed. The purpose he announced, is to stimulate interest in Americanization by a skillful presentation of material...
...cynical G. P. U. agents, or of the Spanish peasants liquidating their local bourgeoisie: "And I saw the priest with his skirts tucked up scrambling over a bench and those after him were chopping at him with the sickles and the reaping hooks . . . and there was another scream and another scream and I saw two men chopping into his back with sickles. . . ." However he may fancy himself as a leftist sympathizer, as a great and sensitive artist Ernest Hemingway is well over the Red rash. The bell in this book tolls for all mankind...
Willkie's voice was vigorous but tired. The audience had gone ready to scream, shout, laugh, cry, cheer, boo, wave their little U. S. flags. But the Candidate wouldn't pull out the stops, hurried on to his next sentence even as applause broke out, slurred his words so that their sense was sometimes lost. Once again the speech, with its simple, strong points read better than it sounded...
...months he had been on the lam, sleeping in flophouses, always moving. He had no tie. His hat & coat were gone. When he came to a church he went inside. It was dark there, too. He was still scared, too scared. In the empty, still church he began to scream...