Word: mournfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enemy. Coast dwellers frown when the grey banks drift in and smother the buoys. At sea the slowed ships feel their way; the sirens mourn incessantly. Voices are lowered in a fog, which muffles them yet lower as though it shrouded something grave about to happen. Fog, several hours of it, gets on men's nerves. Two thousand miles of groping through fog might drive two men in an airplane-a land airplane over an ocean-close to distraction. So thought radio operators listening last week to the day-and- nightlong flashes of Ernest L. Smith, civilian pilot...
...phrases which so completely violate the principles of correct grammar as "He don't" are to become permissible in good usage, purists and scholars may indeed mourn the loss of a great battle in their age long fight against popular ignorance and carelessness. And America, often belittled by foreigners as a land of little culture and less scholarship, will be quite defenceless against the jibes of its European detractors...
...this development is of relatively recent origin, and it is only with the passing of Oliver Wendell Holmes, that we must mourn the departure of the great conversationalists. Among all the charming talkers of the Saturday Club, one of Boston's proudest traditions, where gathered for dinner Emerson, Longfellow, Lowell, and others, he was admitted to be the most sparkling. It is fortunate that his wit and brilliance have been preserved for posterity in the table talks of the "Autocrat" and the "Professor...
Here they put together a nice little formula some time ago, about a mythical Kingdom, and a prince, and a little mistaken identity, and an American girl, and that horrid vulture "duty to state" which comes along and spoils everything, while the chorus girls mourn and strive to look desperately fetching in their pastel frocks...
...model for the British War Mothers mourn...