Word: moaned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hair, flash of lightning glitters in her twin green (emerald green) eyes. Blustering sergeant finds cigaret case initialed J. S. "A plant," sneers John Smith, master detective, who has appeared suddenly in their midst. "Forged!" he leers again, as the sergeant unearths a wallet stuffed with bills. A low moan from the upper hall; the police lumber up to find another body: the ambassador's son. Detective Smith goes to the phone: "Give me transAtlantic, operator−I want Scotland Yard...
Near Baltimore, lived a lazy, black rascal called Matt Fisher. Last week, when ennui made him yawn and moan, he decided to put an unused tie across the tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad to derail the Philadelphia-Norfolk express train. Whistling for his dog, Matt Fisher strolled towards the railroad...
...unhappy love life, a severe case of pyorrhea, and an insatiable appetite for the flesh of the Australian wombat. Only the most agonized and pathetic courage enables him to smile and dance in the performance of his duties. This picture concerns a Grimaldi whose unhappy habit is to moan and wail whenever approached by an emotional crisis...
...shouted, she flapped the floor with a map of Africa, her right ear. For violins and cellos, ehe rolled her small bright eye. Then, when the crazy, jazzy saxophone blew a blue note, Poetre filled the geyser-ish trumpet of her nose with air and water, blew out a moan more liquid than the trombone's. In wet clothes and a panic the minstrels scurried off. Squirrels. On the roof of a house in Canandaigua, N. Y., there stood a fat squirrel who looked like "Babe" Ruth. On the limb of an oak tree not far off, stood another...
Inside a Pullman a girl awoke with a scream, rolled over with a moan, exclaiming, "I'm shot!" She was Miss Florence M. Anderson, Los Angeles schoolteacher, returning home from a summer course at the National University, Mexico City. Her friend, Miss Louise Rider, also of Los Angeles, summoned help and administered first aid. It was found that Miss Anderson had been shot in the left side toward the back, the slug piercing her intestines...