Word: yell
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...pious artisans glorified God at Chartres and Poitiers, Artist Saint has cooked up messes of egg-yolk, hollyhock, calendula and portulaca. To get a certain yellow, Mr. Saint boiled a cow's hoof, as a medieval manuscript directed. So noisome was the process that Artist Saint had to yell for his sons to carry the bubbling hellbroth away...
...fishing once in a while; even a 17-year locust has to come up for air some time. On this all-work-and-no-play-makes-Jack-a-dull-boy principle. Author Louis Paul last week burst from his cell with a yell like a Siberian monk's. A Horse in Arizona was well calculated to startle Author Paul's readers, who had gathered from his first book (The Pumpkin Coach-TIME, April 8, 1935) that Author Paul had almost as much gusto as Phil Stong but almost as much sweetness & light as Lloyd Douglas (Green Light)-that...
Second big yell went up when the Detroit Guild wired in that Wayne County's Prosecutor Duncan C. ("Dune") McCrea, long at outs with the Hearstian Detroit Times, was thinking of instituting a $100,000 libel suit against the paper for stating that he was a member of the terroristic Black Legion organization, and that if he did he would donate any proceeds from the suit to the Newspaper Guild to help fight for "underpaid Hearst employes...
...healthiest, reddest corpuscle in it. When Bryan failed, by a little, to get the Presidency in 1896. that pulse beat faltered. The election of Roosevelt II in 1932 was not a real one; it was "no echo of a cry for liberty or reform. It was a yell for cash and jobs." Says Adams darkly: "The real pulse beat may or may not come, out of due time...
...Patience did most. She starts the story from the very beginning, with the births of herself and her brothers. "But Papa had a good time before Johnny was born because he discovered how to stop all the traffic in Paris. He would take Mamma out in our Citroen and yell to the agents de police, 'femme enceinte,' which means, 'woman with child,' and the agent de police would stop all the trolley-cars and autos until Papa got by." This system broke down, however, the night the Abbes motored out to Le Bourget to see Lindbergh...