Word: groaned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plate king, has there been a tin plate industry, separate and distinct. "Tin Plate" Leeds and his fabulous friends, Judge William Moore, promoter extraordinary, and Daniel Gray ("Czar") Reid, tossed their tin plate trust into T. S. Steel Corp. at a price which made the Elder John Pierpont Morgan groan. What they did keep was the tin can trust. Today most tin plate is made by steel companies and most tin plate is used by can companies. For American Can is no longer a trust but merely the biggest concern in a competitive field. Thus the present tin plate boom...
When all had gone, the old man went over to the washstand. In his hand flashed a cheap little butcher knife. The men outside the door heard him groan. Bursting in, they could see his face in the mirror, contorted with pain. He was still trying to push the knife through his ribs...
Elsewhere throughout the world there was similar activity. It centred in 350 cities, took place at the same hours _ in each on six days of last week. It occupied the attention of some 22,000 preparatory and high school students. Soon schoolboys who meet on holidays will groan in exaggerated despair. "How'd you make out?" or boast cockily: "It was a pipe." Then in Manhattan clerks will write out, for each & every one, a certificate of grades from the College Entrance Examination Board...
Above the European city's sleepless roar that throbs across the city's zoo, rises every night a roar of animal voices, voices from Africa and Asia, from the polar ice, the plains of Tanganyika, the primeval forests of Borneo. Lions groan and tigers moan. Elephants trumpet like thunder. Wolves howl, hyenas laugh, monkeys screech. But all cry the same thing: "How long must we remain captive? What have we done that we should suffer so horribly? Why are we here? Why?" Sleepy humans do not answer, do not even hear...
...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...