Word: brooding
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...served him hearty Schnitzels and Muskatellers, gave him little pin wheels and ocarinas and beer mugs, entertained him with folk tales and Tarock-pleasures the stiff castle denied him. The severe Empress Elizabeth, who, as she bluntly put it, "was sick and tired of being brood mare to His Majesty," openly encouraged the relationship. Soon all Vienna knew of it, and approved. On the Emperor's birthday, little children would come with flowers to watch the pre-dawn passage of der alte Kaiser from his secret gate to that of "Käthi, the uncrowned Empress...
John Nance Garner. Cactus Jack is 71, sound in wind & limb, a hickory conservative who does not represent the Old South of magnolias, hoopskirts, pillared verandas, but the New South: moneymaking, industrial, hardboiled, still expanding too rapidly to brood over social problems. He stands for oil derricks, sheriffs who use airplanes, prairie skyscrapers, mechanized farms, $100 Stetson hats. Conservative John Garner appeals to many a conservative voter...
With the scratching of the ace middle distance man, the unexpected Harvard bid for a high place in the scoring of the meet went with the wind. Jim contributed substantially to the overwhelming defeat the Mikkola brood handed a strong Cornell and a weak Yale and Dartmouth team in the Quadrangular meet at the Garden last Saturday. But the double victory in the 600 and the 1000 last weekend was paid for with a strained leg muscle which has not responded to treatment. Dopesters who based their happy Harvard predictions on the performances in the Quad meet were forced...
...Moralize!" a mass marriage was arranged in Mexico City at the National Stadium, packjammed with approving spectators. Several soldiers' brides carried babes in arms, but outstanding newlyweds were a trim, ramrod-backed officer and his stern, hollow-cheeked wife, who were proudly married in the presence of their brood of five...
...Schoolmarm Campbell relaxed, saw that her brood were well wrapped in overcoats, shooed them home...