Word: blushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...svelte and blonde; on her last visit, newsmen recalled, she was plump and redhaired. Of her husband she said: "The first time I heard David sing was four months ago. He was singing 'Nay, I Will Not Let You Go,' and as I listened I felt myself blush to the roots of my hair. . . ." In Boston Mayor James M. Curley pointed out that Texas Guinan had promised to give half the proceeds of her show to the unemployed. Sister Aimee agreed to share all takings over & above $2,600 daily rental of Boston Garden, which has a capacity...
Everywhere we heard complaints from the natives of the rudeness of American visitors, and we had ourselves ocular demonstrations of it, which at this late day still make us blush for the American representatives in South America...
...advice latent in the accompanying press from Princeton's daily carries with it a real Message. For those who have already experienced the shave, shower, shine, and shampoo sequence, it will be welcome corroboration. To those super-sophisticates for whom this little round of activity has lost its first blush of freshness, it offers consolation and reward...
...feel at all cocky over your knowledge of English literature have a look at this catechism. The authors may spare the local teaser about who killed Kit Marlowe, but they have up their sleeve a few new ones that would make a Divisional paper blush...
...waiting for the applause which is not to come, everyone wants to know where the joke is. They urge him to continue, assuring the youth that they are still listening and want him to finish. Of course he does not know what to say and usually does nothing except blush embarassingly. The dissatisfied listeners finally agree to let the new man have another chance on the following night, advising him, that he should have an extra good one then. Of course they do not really mean this but as the others rise and leave the room, the new member finishes...