Word: sighing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even in the South of England several degrees of frost have been frequently registered, " playing havoc with garden and fruit crops." Each night cold Britishers huddle around huge fires and sigh for Summer...
...Saida (Sidon), Syria, 600 beautiful and unmarried girls pine for husbands. There are none in Saida. Sadly they gaze across the Mediterranean and sigh for the United States. The Syrian quota is full. Desperately determined, the girls would sail to the three-mile limit and invite matrimonially inclined Americans to choose their brides. This suggestion is said to have reached the Near East Relief...
...ambition or by fanatical zeal, even those who have no liking for him must pay some respect to his stubborn courage. But he has now withdrawn his foreign ambassadors, proclaimed a cessation of hostilities, and produced his conditions of surrender so that Ireland can at last heave a vast sigh of relief...
...force, and the majority, the great majority, almost all the people of Italy, were relieved and satisfied. They did not want to govern themselves. They wanted someone to take power and govern for them, and when I stepped up and said I would do it, the people of Italy sighed a sigh work, leaving me and my council to attend to the common business. If I don't do it, the Italians will get rid of me, but they will take on another dictator. Italy is a dictatorship for a long time to come, and the reason is that...
From those sad few of us who are struggling to flee from the Ulysses-Black Oxen-Jurgen mania, Francis Brett Young's latest book draws forth a sigh of relief. In "Pilgrim's Rest" there is realism to be sure, but it deals with the loneliness of the African jungle, and the ups and downs of life in an African gold-mine town. Like its contemporaries got it is outspoken, and yet it leaves one with the comforting feeling that perhaps the present-day light novel has not completely fallen into the hands of a corporation of psycho-sexualists...