Word: sighing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...government finds it impossible to collect taxes from obdurate and crafty mountaineers, and at repeated intervals the government is administered from the decks of Italian cruisers, while the land heaves with rebellions. Ninety percent of the people neither read and write, nor wish to. Some of the people sigh for union with Italy, others look longing across the artificial border to Jugo-Slavia; but neither power is willing to, or would be allowed by the other, to occupy this territory. Bolshevists and "Whites" rampage about...
...Ball, Dial, Stanley, Walsh of Massachusetts, McCormick, before a forced retirement to rustication on their farms and by their native fireside. A few, such as Senator Elkins, will be back to wave a gayer adieu. Others such as Senators Walsh, of Montana, Brookhart, of Iowa, will return with a sigh of relief, knowing that they may come again. But, in the main, it will be the same identical Congress-the Congress that nobody liked...
...Wheeler Club, to refuse in as vigorous language as he chooses the invitation which the Harvard Democratic Club has extended to join it in its support of Mr. Davis. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that the officers of the Harvard Democratic Club have breathed a deep sigh of relief at Mr. Brown's unequivocal refusal. There can be no question but that the Harvard Democratic Club can do its work more effectively without the membership of those who profess to believe with La Follette and Wheeler that government should control industry, that railroad rates can be materially...
Here's a sigh to those who love me, And a smile to those who hate; And whatsoever sky's above me, Here's a heart for every fate...
...sigh of relief drifted up from the hall to the speaker's stand. This meant, of course, the abdication of the Convention, and the resignation of its functions to a committee. But as all legislative bodies learn, sooner or later, so this Democratic Convention has learned that business has to be done in committee, if one wants secrecy and dispatch, and then merely be ratified afterward on the floor . . . Once more pure democracy, or the form of pure democracy, which always is the cloak for some sort of oligarchy, had been replaced by representative government where the oligarchy could frankly...