Word: mourn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senators wrung his hand: "La France will mourn you long, M. Clémenceau. As her most gallant champion, have you the heart to abandon her thus in the night...
...Lampoon, indeed, has too long served the American public with clean humor and clean advertising with all those fundamental forces in salient satire and irresistible irony to die uncherished and unwept. From coast to coast those who have followed Lample will mourn their departed leader. Life itself will be without a parent; Mother Advocate without a son. The entire nation will mourn this departed jester royal-this wanton wit and boisterous bard...
...Manhattan, thugs entered the dental office of Dr. H. A. Parr, stole from his safe sheets of gold, six original mouth interiors mounted with full sets of teeth in gold and platinum. Not for these did Dr. Parr, Civil War veteran, mourn, but for three gold "sets" which were of immense historical value, being copies of oral equipment that Dr. Parr had constructed to assist President Ulysses S. Grant and Mrs. Grant, and President Chester A. Arthur to masticate their food. This celebrated trio were all onetime patients of Dr. Parr...
...Doble has indirectly something to do with his disciple's disgust, the suggestion is all the more worthy attention from the wise heads who are sitting up of nights with American education and feeling its feeble pulse. Cornell's well-wishers are not the only amateur college presidents who mourn the decline of the tough specimen at college. Sports writers and alumni everywhere are likewise saddened to witness insidious attempts to make the American university into an institution of learning in place of a good tight paddock where impetuous young men may be kept for four years to run about...
...drunk but more of fancy Oriental herbs [plus orientalium herbarum decoratarum] and more of coffee, which all too often, perchance to the detriment of study and discipline, our young men and women consume in the morning hours in the city shops. And it must be confessed we older men mourn the becoming dress of our contemporaries when we see our students adorned with clothes of various colors and actually wearing trousers which, by the ambitious latitude in their fullness, are more barbarian than any which the Dacians or Sarmatians wore...