Word: bewail
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...situation that has become intolerable to every one interested and most of all to the crew men themselves." Here you are following a common journalistic policy of creating a whirlwind; but your effort is rash, uncalled for,--and certainly untimely. And furthermore is it not harmful to bewail the crew and the coach just before a race, instead of encouraging them...
Perhaps the most pleasing of all effects were contained in the large assortment of feminine beauty and the rather full program of dancing. Certain critics bewail the inactivities of that generally superfluous character, the censor. Far be it from us to criticise the critics, but one may ask if a bare log is not more artful and less crude than the suggestiveness of one covered by a fraction of soiled flesh-colored tights...
Apparently "cutting costs" is of sufficient importance to a number of men to cause their attendance day after day even though they continually bewail the dullness of the lectures. They may have figured out the expense of a holiday be forehand...
...that America has been led "to aim, in her universities, at an all-round development, physical and social as well as intellectual, and to provide means of physical and social well-being far in advance of anything we have yet attained"--such statements should cheer considerably those who bewail our method in general. We have much to learn, but perhaps our foundations are firmer than many believe. It is pleasant, indeed, to think that while we can polish off our education by borrowing from England, we can give her much in return...
...world, I e'en must leave thee." Professor Davison. Air, Bach Miss Curtis. Caprice, Guilmant Pastorale, Franck Professor Davison. Romance, Rachmaninoff Miss Curtis. Choral Prelude, "O man bewail thine awful sin," Bach Finale (First Symphony), Vierne Professor Davison...