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...Covey" does not have the courage to go out into the streets for the doctrines he preaches when the guns begin to roll. The whole cast of tenement dwellers are represented as drunken, excitable dunderheads who have small belief in, and no comprehension of, the patriotic rant they scream at one another. It is small wonder that Mr. O'Casey's unflattering portrait of Dublin Irishmen in the nation's darkest hour caused a riot when it was first produced...
...Chairman David Lawrence, onetime Commonwealth Secretary Richard J. Beamish. Presently 10,000 mourners gathered from nearby towns, began to chant the Requiem responses in a half-dozen tongues as three obscure men were laid to rest. The dead buried, a handful of women surged around Governor-elect Earle to scream in Italian: "If you don't send those murderers to the electric chair we'll kill them ourselves." He did not understand, but later he passed the hat among his friends for the families of the newly dead...
...been my close-stool. It has been my grave. It has been my resurrection. On the platform I have expressed by a whisper, by a silence, by a gesture, by a bow, by a leer, by a leap, by a skip, by the howl of a wolf, by the scream of a woman in travail, certain inspirations concerning the secrets of life that, without any vain boasting, I do not think have been expressed very often in this world...
...years Herb Williams has made vaudeville audiences scream with delight by his quavering plea of "Spotlight!" from a dark stage. Sometimes billed as "The Bulgarian Military Pianist," he used to rummage for a ham sandwich under his piano lid, draw himself a glass of beer from a spigot beneath the keyboard. His comedy was generally of the tear-the-place-to-pieces variety...
...executioner" pulls the lever of the guillotine. The blade is so arranged that it stops with a gruesome thump just short of the flogged poule's neck, but excited tourists are found to relish the sadistic idea that it might fall all the way. Female spectators invariably scream. To prove that she has actually been flogged, the poule invites attention to the welts on her thrashed posterior, solicits tips...