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Word: screaming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shape of a bat, to drink their blood. So horrible were its beastly visions that many a maid fell helpless with hysterics; mothers banned the book, after reading it secretly themselves, and fainting. This book is now a play, packed grimly with cursing madmen, open graves, the scream of dogs, the shadow of Beath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 17, 1927 | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

Inside a Pullman a girl awoke with a scream, rolled over with a moan, exclaiming, "I'm shot!" She was Miss Florence M. Anderson, Los Angeles schoolteacher, returning home from a summer course at the National University, Mexico City. Her friend, Miss Louise Rider, also of Los Angeles, summoned help and administered first aid. It was found that Miss Anderson had been shot in the left side toward the back, the slug piercing her intestines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Mexican Banditry | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

From the Battices' cabin came a gurgling scream. All hands bounded down the companionway. There lay Mrs. Battice with a necklace of blood under her chin, from ear to ear. Mr. Battice was mumbling: "She said she loved Badke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Wolf | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

Snarling, he bit both women, made them scream. Mr. Baletic was conducted to Bellevue Hospital, Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Optimists | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

...there were roads ' "for women only!" Put all the old hens and nice young things and horn-rimmed stickle-backs and back-seat drivers off on a boulevard of their own and let them ball up their own traffic and smash each others' fenders and scream and stick out their tongues to their hearts' delight. Yours for segregation of the impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Character v. Show | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

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