Word: groaning
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...band of military adventurers (TIME, March 4), and his capture of Chefoo last week bode untold evil to the wretched, famine-stricken people of Shantung. Cowed by the scowling marshal, who chews fat Havana cigars and particularly likes to spit brown in people's faces, they could only groan, "How do the wicked flourish!" Shrewd as well as ruthless, Chang Tsung-chang at once ran up the five-barred flag which used to stand for the Chinese Republic ten years ago, but has stood for every kind of despotism since. One or two gullible correspondents, new at the Chinese...
Significance. Thus in a series of excessively droning monologues Lowell Schmaltz gives himself away to inconceivably long-suffering audiences as a self-satisfied ass thriving in a smug over-convenient America, 1928 model. Lively audiences yawn, groan, escape him, but posterity, trapped by the author's undeniable virtuosity in the spoken word, will listen and believe that the mechanistic ass was typical of the age. And posterity may not detect this flaw: "typical" American butter-and-eggers idolized in Lindbergh all the heroism which their own ready-to-wear existence lacked, and would always prefer a Lindbergh...
...surprising fact about the classes, Fradd says, is that while all the men groan under the heavy exercises devised to correct the hollow chests and sagging spinal columns, many of the men ask permission to continue longer than the required six week period. The results of the exercises apparently justify the effort, and some men have reported to Fradd of their own accord during the greater part of a year...
...idea is to bring a girl to the state of mind where she will look at a dirty floor in her home, not with a groan and a thought of how she may escape tidying it up. On the contrary, she will look at a dirty floor with critical eye, think how much better it will be when it is cleaned up, and set to work with the newest thing in mops and cleansers to complete...
...unfortunately recorded in the first act, holds fast to the brown paper envelope on land as well as on sea, whither the characters repair in the second act, and in the end bestows herself upon the victim's eldest son. To many a flashing blade, nocturnal groan, mayhem, is this lady privy. There is a younger son, also. But, unlike the other characters, he keeps his mouth shut occasionally...