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Word: screaming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...First Officer W. L. Garner to perform his amateur conjuring tricks. On Christmas night, with the dam nearing completion, Conjurer Garner, performing in the glare of truck headlights, made a Belgian five-franc piece disappear from the hand of a small native girl. She let out a piercing scream, her arm became completely stiff, and the natives grew menacing. "She knows the money is inside her arm," grunted the native chief. "Makes her sick." Conjurer Garner hastily improvised a new trick: extracted the coin from the flesh of her arm and all was well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Corsair in Congo | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

noise, and cold. penetrating. band blares out, brassy noise. death rattling roll of drums. noise, a strident scream. angry hissing. belches of cotton smoke ... the train grates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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