Word: fretting
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...seems more reasonable than it does in childhood and youth. The thought of death used to terrify me. Now it seems a natural thing, a part of life, just another experience, whatever it is. So many of my friends have faced it, why not I? In the meantime, why fret about it? I have been shaving this funny old face every Sunday. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday for years and years. I have come to look on it as a mask behind which lies the reality that it has to hide. It is getting a bit battered and shopworn. Perhaps...
Tenants of modern office buildings fret if they wait more than 30 seconds for an elevator. This impatience cost Manhattan's Empire State Building nearly $400,000 for extra elevators. The space those elevators occupy takes more than four acres from the building's rentable space. The Empire State owners could have saved space & money by running 20 double-deck elevators to the 80th floor instead of the present 36 single-deck passenger cars which go that high. But the owners figured their building would quickly fill up with tenants whose rents would pay for the extra elevators...
These Russians are not good actors. They strut and fret their hour interminably, and their make-up is very bad. The only real character in this film, aside from Communism, the hero, and Proletariat, the heroine, is poor old villian Aman-Durdy-bey. And he reminds one of a gay ninties revival...
...natural good spirits, the Vagabond has been feeling of late that the ruby of the sunset was only a garnet and the emerald of the sea was but green glass. He has suffered from the "weariness the fever, and the fret. Here, where men sit and hear each other groan." He has sought comradeship in vain. The Jester has been in seclusion, incubating puns on the Shanghai situation. George Bernard Shaw has climbed off the apple cart to mount the band-wagon of reform (thereby adding another name to the firm of Wells, Russell, and Mencken, Ltd., Odd-jobbers Specializing...
...only on his Texas farm is "Jack" Garner really happy. There from the sad dle he watches his cattle graze, inspects his hogs, takes a sick lamb up in his short strong arms to coax it back to health. What if his wife does fret because he spends too much on agricultural experiments? This is his fun. He speaks the homely language his neighbors all under stand. This week they were immensely proud of him. So were all other Texans. He was about to bring the Lone Star State its first Speakership. That was more than 29 other States could...