Word: sighed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Street word promptly went the rounds that Mr. Whitney's retreat came after a bitter squabble in the utility family in which members of the industry brought pressure to bear on United Corp. to maintain the united front. Telling the story last week, Commissioner Douglas heaved a long sigh of discouragement. "What can you do?" he asked...
Mannequin (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When Actress Joan Crawford, in the lithe chic of a $2.98 bathing suit, adjusts her shopworn profile to a summer night and sighs to her handsome vis-a-vis, "why do you suppose the moon is always bigger on Saturday night?," a million understanding shopgirl hearts sigh with her. And when, temporarily exalted to a swank Manhattan penthouse, Joan looks over the parapet at the twinkling city, "piled up against the dark," many a less lyric lass wishes that she, too, might sometime be so pent...
...sigh for the good old days of bonecrushing flying wedges. The introduction of the forward pass and the development of the lateral has made football far more interesting for both players and spectators he said...
...Well," he breathed a sigh, "it is wonderful to have you two to entertain for the weekend." He prayed that he had struck the note of sarcasm off-key. "I suppose you're both keyed up for the game and ready to burst your lungs rooting for Harvard." Dimly he remembered hearing his mother say that Uncle Henry graduated from Harvard in 1897; he also thought that something similar had once been said about Cousin Arthur. So the explosion from Cousin Arthur left him gasping. "Hmph!" he lit the fuse. "For a Yale man to root for Harvard would...
...else would one think of Spring? Would one peek out the window, sec leaves waving on trees, lawnmowers on the grass, and merely cry, "Swell"? Would one stroll along either bank of the Charles, search the darkness for couples increasing the pleasure of the night, and, but sigh? At least, one should do more than sigh...