Word: sighing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sigh and say it's wrong for a man to kill newspapers. When a newspaper is chronically for sale, the best thing you can do is kill...
...added : " ' Pickwick still rears his head with unblushing effrontery, and gazes without a sigh on the ruin he has made...
There are bookplates that are really designed to adorn a page, not to squat upon it like a nuisance; bookplates that have some genuine connection both with the books they rest in and the owners of those books; pleasant, interesting, engaging, individual bookplates. You sigh, and resolve to have one made...
...deceive the eye was put to ignominious rout by the forces of science. The fact that William James, the great philosopher and psychologist, sent through her a message to the world written in heliotrope-colored ink was enough to raise some doubt. Furthermore that this message was only a sigh--"How happy I should have been for such an opportunity as this"--instead of further elaborations of his stratum-of-energy theory or his plans for prevention of war must have made anyone nose a rat. Evidently the scientists did, for by measuring and weighing the cards they soon brought...
...preponderant personage on the screens of the world. Mary Pickford, annoyed thereby, put up her curls and played Rosita. The same story (Don Cesar de Bazan) is the backbone of Miss Negri's The Spanish Dancer. Mary's acting and Mary's production were superior. (National sigh of relief...