Word: brooding
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...President's ear were few and sharp: brass bands playing one chorus of the national anthem, the six-pounders saluting 21 times, like doors banging in a distant, empty house. A thousand yards astern of the carriers footed seven Treaty cruisers of the Scouting Force, then a brood of 21 destroyers. Two thousand yards behind them glided the cruisers and destroyers of the Battle Force, followed by nine of the nation's 15 capital ships. New Mexico and Mississippi looked the most impressive with their modern, heavy forward fighting bridges. But the West Virginia, with outmoded masts like...
...motor running and crying, "All right you, Break it up, and go Home." This produced magnificent effects and by pushing all the men who lived in Eliot House down toward Dunster and all Winthrop men up toward Adams House the riot broke up miraculously. Leaving only the Colonel to brood over his troubles...
...last year. Except for the failure of the favorite-which is almost an Aintree tradition -last week's race was run truer to form than any Grand National anyone could remember. The Hon. Dorothy Wyndham Paget, owner of Golden Miller, last year spent $200,000 for brood mares at the Newmarket sale. Two years before she had bought Golden Miller, who had brought only $500 as a yearling and had been resold four times since, for about $30,000. That her racing colors contain the same shade of blue as that of the foremost U. S. racing family...
Driven out by her former protector, the janitor of Harvard Hall, Sarah, Yard eat and mouser extraordinary, is now anticipating a blessed event under the sponsorship of the Stoughton janitor. Sarah has been biologically different of late and a brood of kittens is expected within the next two weeks. Her former protector drove her out, not desiring the confusion and flurry always attendant up on childbirth. The Stoughton janitor, however, a farsighted and economically-minded man, has plans in store for the brood. He will expect them to earn their unkeep by being rented out for mousing throughout the Yard...
...making only $12 and can't make ends meet. ... It is impossible for the boy to go on like he is. ... It is true he works less hours, but what can he do with his spare time? All he can do is sit around and brood about not being able to make a living for his wife and baby...