Word: blushful
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...they'll do what's right?and they can always be trusted to do it." Also said: "I don't think Mayor Thompson [of Chicago] is the most ignorant man in the world. I couldn't prove that. ... I bring this up because I never want to have to blush for Cleveland...
...called Chicago. She took her material for Revelry from the novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams and for local color she went to Washington, moseyed about the lobby halls, chatted with the politicians, pried, snooped, took notes. To see Miss Watkins, whose beauty is fresh and sweet as the first blush of a primrose, one won- ders how she ever accumulated the authentic mass of profanity let loose in her play. Perhaps it is because she once wrote for a Chicago newspaper. Certainly it is not because she studied in Professor George P. Baker's class in dramatic composition...
...perspicacious the resemblance between father and son will no doubt be obvious. At least their business will be basically the same. As last year, the Student Vagabond will concentrate the major portion of his attention upon the flowers which might else blush unseen in the "Announcement of Courses of Instruction" and waste their perfume upon a few. But being younger, it is more than likely that he will wander farther afield seeking violets rather than daisies. Nor will he keep too well in mind the strict definition of a student. More often than occasionally he will merely draw a road...
...long studies hidden in his own breast, his thoughts at times revolving tumultuously there as though they were animated by the seed of truth and must therefore out, yet again subsiding in acknowledged error, and at the same time to see harvests of wealth and reputation won at first blush by those who could not wait to speak, yet lost upon the entrance of the next eager voice, this is, not perhaps to enjoy learning at all times, but to discover an unbroken path to continually greater wisdom. Restraint, seclusion, and observation are well-known watchwords of the simon pure...
...good business, and will do more to lift the mortgage from the old home than any amount of "special number", fake CRIMSONS, and the like. All that remains is to make the paper a little bit funnier, without, of course, admitting to its columns anything that would bring the blush of shame to the cheek of modesty. For instance, Jones contributes to the May 4 issue a first rate professional cover; the kind of work that outside magazines are glad to buy. But Jones shows the defects as well as the virtues of the professional manner. He might have reversed...