Word: wailful
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...demanded: "Where, oh where is Dubinsky today? . . . He is crying out now and his voice laments like that of Rachel in the wilderness, against the racketeers and the panderers and the crooks in that organization. . . . And now above all the clamor comes the piercing wail and the laments of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. And they say, 'Peace, it is wonderful.' " He invited them and their president to follow Dubinsky into the fold...
...siren was a nerve-tearing noise. Dr. Henry Albert Wilson, Bishop of Chelmsford, was dead in earnest when he wrote: "I suggest a gay cockadoodle-doo repeated half a dozen times would be in the nature of a whistle to keep our courage up instead of a dole ful wail which depresses all but the most stouthearted...
...traded, is the London Stock Exchange. For war "The House," as Londoners call its huge six-story building, has corrugated metal shutters on the windows, slabs of concrete over lavatory glass, skylights, pavements, etc. Inside, 30 seconds before the rest of London hears an air-raid siren's wail, a, special Klaxon stops the traders. They gather their books and scurry to their City offices, all less than half a mile away. Only red-and-blue liveried "waiters" (runners) are left on the echoing floor. So called because 18th-Century brokers did their trading in coffee houses, the waiters...
...Small got there). As he passed through Lille and Tournai last fortnight, they were bombarded. Nazi planes followed him along the roads. Said another newsman, when he arrived in Paris last week: "Get the hell out of here, Alex, or we'll be bombed." Immediately sirens began to wail an airraid alarm for the first time in a fortnight, bombs fell...