Word: lingers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dames are temporary flames to you Dames, you don't recall their names, do you? But their caresses and home addresses Linger in your memory. ?"Dames...
King George likes "God Save the King" so well that royal bands now linger over it at an officially slowed tempo, but Edward of Wales is always trying to hurry them through his hymn with its lugubrious refrain...
...that the Harvard-Yale meet is over and done with to the satisfaction of everyone around here, thoughts turn for a moment and linger hopefully on the prospects of the Crimson in the coming I.C.4A track and field meet to be held in Philadelphia this Friday and Saturday...
...where songs are published and songwriters remembered, little is known of the men who wrote the homely old tunes which today are almost U.S. folksongs. Last week Douglas Gilbert of the enterprising New York World-Telegram traced the fortunes of some oldtime songwriters in a series called "Songs That Linger On- Who Wrote Them?" Four songs and their composers...
Many a plain U.S. citizen will linger over the snapshots of the last Republican and Democratic Conventions, will hoot with sudden delight at an action photograph of the Senate ("Ever seen a section of a termite nest under glass?"), will scratch his head over this group picture of the House of Representatives: ". . . Everywhere the closeset eyes full of lawyer's chicanery, the pursed, selfrighteous mouth drawn down at the corners, the flabby self satisfied jowl...