Word: moans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then with stone walls crumbling, bar racks and asylums emptying fast, penitentiaries ablaze, and the Capitol presumably under control, Poet Cowley heard "an unchoked sigh, a moan of liberation" rise from mean streets, moonless areaways, factory gates, convict camps and the Cotton Belt...
...Bess, his woman, kills a man and then flees from the white man's justice leaving Bess to seek refuge with Porgy. Then comes one of the most mystic scenes ever to be put on the stage--the "saucer burial" of the dead man. While the Negroes chant and moan melancholy airs in the darkened room, they slowly give the widow enough money to save her husband's body from the medical students and give it proper burial. Soon after that there comes the glorious love duet, "Bess, You Is My Woman Now." This idyllic scene between Porgy and Bess...
...only fanfare that attended the first Any Questions? program last January was the moan of sirens and the smash of explosives. BBC had been bombed; the producer of the program was trying to get his family out of a danger zone 200 miles away; it was a wet, cold, angry evening. At an emergency underground studio arrived Expert No. 1: wild-haired Professor Julian Huxley, fresh from the Zoo, where he had been seeing to the safety of tigers. Expert No. 2, Philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, clumped in on loud-nailed boots, carrying a vast haversack. Expert...
There go-getting George Halas started his career as a football entrepreneur. Remembering Illinois Coach Bob Zuppke's everlasting moan that his players always graduated just as they got to be good, Halas decided to round up recent college graduates for a professional team. The following year (1921), Halas took his Staleys to Chicago, rented the Cubs ball park, renamed his team the Bears, became a charter member of the National Football League...
...would like to ask what the big-mouthed Johnny Bulls ever did. Long ago they let one of their colonies, U.S.A., take them into camp. They [Johnny Bulls] moan at the Germans for taking land and yet they stole half of the world. Oh, that was splendid! The Germans at least proved they were men enough to take something. They don't sneak around with their sly tongues and steal something by the use of big mouths. Them and their big mouths and umbrellas...