Word: groanings
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Like the maddening rumble of guns that grew louder and louder in the ears of Parisians in 1914, the steady drone of a well-oiled machine has preyed upon the ears of the White House within the last fortnight. That drone was the culmination of the three-year-old groan of the sick farmer. That drone was the work of militant farm organizations, skillful lobbyists, a group of Senators and Representatives from the West and South who have convinced majorities in Congress that the proper medicine for the sick farmer is the McNary-Haugen bill (TIME, Feb. 14). Many...
...Curtiss racer was invisible from above. Flyer Bettis eyed the downslope of the mountain and started creeping on his three good members, with a limp thing dragging over the windfalls. At clearings he would pull himself erect and hop along from tree to bush, every jolt costing him a groan. At seven o'clock by his watch he heard automobiles, and two hours later he came to a field's edge. Occasionally a car went by, but smashed jaws cannot shout...
...backdrop is clearly demonstrated when Mr. Stokowski raises his baton and the scrannel strains of the violin and cello tremble, quite unsupported, in the hostile air. . . . Now another musician comes in. He carries a horn and a handkerchief and flops down in the first convenient seat; after a premonitory groan, his brass assaults the tune. . . . The piccolo players, the drummer and the flute stroll in, smiling and chuckling; one of them is trying to get a pack of cards into his waistcoat pocket. Obviously a game of penny ante has delayed them. . . . Mr. Stokowski stops while the last...
...much more sizable audience was lured to Paine Hall than the pitiful handful which has sat at the ringside of many an arduous intercollegiate debate in the past. And the attentive observer had many free and fair chances to laugh. Unfortunately, however, he had also much occasion to groan. For one thing the speakers for Yale established so complete a monopoly upon the humor of the evening that the Department of Justice might well bring suit against them for a combination in restraint of trade. Surely it is a plausible theory that the editors of the Lampoon had been bribed...
...silver-haired gentleman of broken but distinguished appearance made his way from the Grand Avenue Hotel of Enid, Okla., to the corner drugstore. He purchased lilac perfume and headache powders, enough to keep his head steady on "a long trip." Next day the hotel porter thought he heard a groan through the locked door of the old gentleman's chamber. The door was burst in time for a doctor and two others to hear a stertorous voice say: "I am--am--John Wilkes-- Booth. I killed--killed--Abraham --Lincoln--the--best--best...