Word: sighed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pine-Trees Knew. Like Barbirolli, to whom it is dedicated, the Bax piece had never been heard in the U. S. and on the whole proved an unhappy choice. Critic W. J. Henderson of the New York Sun found that "what those pine trees knew was how to sigh and moan and storm and urge Mr. Bax to deeds of instrumentation. . . . But it was so strung out that one could not help being grateful that Mr. Bax had seen only Norway pines and Scotch firs and had not got into the redwood district of California. Just a few sequoias...
...attention gave this convention and celebration any notice whatever, either before, during or after the gathering. Practically all of the northwest newspapers are reactionary and, like Lot's wife, are looking backward. The Hoover era to them means happy days never to be forgotten and they sigh for their return...
...Lorenz, in a hurry to get away, went off in a small boat with a Norwegian fisherman. Their sun-shriveled corpses were afterwards discovered on a nearby island; they had apparently died of starvation and thirst. With the disturbers of their peace gone. Dore and Dr. Ritter heaved a sigh of relief. But the tale was not yet complete. One night, in spite of their vegetarian predilections, they dined on a chicken that had been acting sick. In a few hours Dr. Ritter was dead. Dore buried him. got herself aboard the next visiting yacht, went back to Germany...
...case of the author who fathered 'Of Time and the River.' Nevertheless, when one considers what William Faulkner could have done with one incident in Mr. Bontemp's novel--the pursuit of the leader of the revolt, the slave Gabriel, through the forests and swamps--one begins to sigh for Faulkner and Hemingway...
...plain to see. Her theme, Woman v. Man, was well-worn but full of unplumbed depths, strange eddies, many a pleasantly gurgling shallow. Masculine passengers at times hung on to their hats and gripped the gunwale, never felt easy enough to relax, but at the end gave a sigh of thanks for an instructive journey...