Word: brooding
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...home late. He did devote Sundays to his family. Then, dressed in a top hat-poverty was not long with them-he paraded them to the Park Avenue Presbyterian Church near their four-story brownstone house on gist Street. Lillias remembers one Sunday when Lawyer Dulles delighted his brood and shocked his wife by putting on an act on the street balancing his top hat on his cane...
...After that, Savitt began to brood about his game, went into a bad slump as he toured from Cairo to the Riviera, playing in minor European tournaments. He was over-tennised, nervous and jumpy. Jaroslav Drobny, 32, beat him six out of seven times. In the recent French championships, against Drobny, Savitt was leading 4-2 in the deciding set when he blew up over a petty error and lost the match...
...quite be Rodgers & Hammerstein at their best, but it is musicomedy at its most charming. Distance lends enchantment doubly-in time as well as space-to the story of an English widow who went to Siam in the 1860s to act as governess to the King's large brood, and found her most eager, childish and unruly pupil in the King himself...
...people of Pottstown, Pa. were really not much surprised by the obvious lack of success of the Rev. Matthew Meigs and his school upon the hill. He was an eccentric man and something of a recluse who liked to brood in his study for days without ever venturing forth. He had begun his school back in 1851 with only 25 boys, and when he retired 25 years later, he still had only 25. Pottstown was doubtful that The Hill would ever do much better...
...three more sons and three daughters after Mike) lived the skimpy life of a factory worker's family. Papa Di Salle made wine in the cellar, fixed the kids' shoes and cut their hair; mama perspired over steaming washtub-size pots of pasta and ruled her brood with a stern Catholic hand...