Word: blushful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...King descended from his car and in a moment stood in the inn doorway. The company within sat transfixed, then stumbled to their feet. The grinning bride began to blush, the bridegroom, a lusty bricklayer, began to stammer...
Says "Yes" with feigning blush...
...Capetown cable must certainly have carried to London the significance of this revolt. Perhaps the knights and baronets and others of the beribboned bosom will feel a slight, well-hidden blush at their kinship with less civilized but just as happy cousins of the Bush...
...complexion of Texas seemed to be altering. In August, upon her nom- ination by the Democrats, Mrs. Miriam A. ("Ma") Ferguson was virtually accepted by the Nation as the Governor-elect of Texas. Last week, public prints of all party affiliations published despatches to the effect that this first blush had faded; that Dr. George C. Butte, Republican nominee, was offering "more resistance than any Republican since the days of the Reconstruction." The reports held that the Republican Party of Texas is once more "a white man's affair." In the old days, only Negroes would vote...
...dozen ordinary men: He has directly denied his intention of removing to other more responsive circles. And the University for the advancement of whose prestige he has been working, and which has given him not the slightest encouragement, has so far not even had the grace to blush...