Word: moans
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...this great ship, bearing no outward sign of wreck or misfortune, so abruptly abandoned? Why were these temples, palaces and astronomical observatories of cunningly carved white limestone suddenly left to the bats, the lizards and the sinister little owls the later Indians called "moan birds" and associated with death? It is conceivable that any rice might forget its humble beginnings in the dawn of history. But how came legend to be so silent about the collapse of a cultivated nation whose greatest cities we can now prove were inhabited in the first six centuries of the Christian era?. One reiterates...
...George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" was played by Paul Whiteman's orchestra last year, critics knew that they were listening for the first time to the voice of Broadway talking in its sleep; they were listening to the hot-lipped, two-timing, razz-m'tazzle moan of the saxophones that chuckle and the whistles that whine in the cabarets of Charleston, Memphis, Chicago, in San Francisco roof-gardens and the honkey-tonk joints of Tia Juana; they were listening to tones as strident as peroxided hair, to rhythms that strutted like Negro girls in diamond tiaras...
...that work at the present time. From this quarter can be heard a moan, from that quarter comes a squeal, and from somewhere else comes a vigorous objection. Two outcries were heard last week...
...mentions on the cinema as a form of art, while denying stoutly that I encourage the evils which he implies in the mysterious term "Distribution". On the contrary, movie-going is the common, if not the unique form of concentration exercised by Oxford undergraduates; and accepting that fact without moan, I wanted to discover whether they considered it necessary that mental processes should be entirely atrophied to secure proper enjoyment of the spectacle. I was relieved to find that some of them applied the same canons of aesthetic criticism to a film as to a painting, a building...
...change along the highways can hardly be estimated. When long lines of malted cows no longer straggle across the deep-blue meadow, the autoist may find line to admire the bovine sedateness of the brirdled cow. When the sad white pup ceases to moan up into the victrola, when the tire twins stop rubbing their eyes and get to bed, when that inexecrably good-looking rounder stops boasting of the mile he never walked, when the world has used up all that good gulf gasoline, then the tired eyes of city dwellers may no longer be tortured by the garish...