Word: clingingly
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...post-War medley of friends. He notices one of them, an actor, carries with him not only the sadness of his tragic roles, but on his cheekbones a touch of carmine that was obviously of cosmetic origin. And the professor wonders vaguely why the young man "did not cling either to one thing or the other?either to his melancholy or to his rouge." Another more affable young guest, one Hergesell, squired a buxom blonde beauty, but left her a few moments to dance playfully with lovely wistful Lorie. Aged five, Lorie was the professor's favorite child...
...Under the heading of "Gifts" [May 7], you make the statement that "Reformed Jewry holds its services in the U. S. in English, on Sunday instead of Saturday." . While it is true that some Reformed Congregations hold their services on Sunday, the preponderate number of them still cling to the traditional sabbath...
...with the news that sharks are harmless. According to Mr. Heilner, he exposed himself to these much-maligned creatures repeatedly without their showing the least interest in him as a possible article of diet. It is to be feared, however, that even before such evidence the popular mind will cling to its delusion. Generations of South Sea Island movies in which a struggle between the hero and a shark is a prominent feature cannot but have their effect, and few frequenters of our bathing beaches will feel inclined to imitate Mr. Heilner's experiments if anything resembling a shark should...
Professor Kennelly found that the vestiges of older systems of measurement are limited to isolated communities, where old natives still cling to the systems with which they are familiar. There is a steady advance of the metric system into all parts of the nations which have adopted it, and no basis was found for the charge that the metric system is failing, and is maintained only by the coercion of the governments...
...could advance its probable occurrence. There will probably always be the low C, and D, and the E men. The Reading Period has proved this truth. It is the A, B and high C men who employed it to the best advantage; on the other hand, the undergraduates who cling to the lower half of the grade hierarchy seem not to have appreciated the experiment...