Word: sighing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hear the graduate sigh...
HERE are myths and legends of Capri made while you wait, and then unmade again with such rapidity that a slight but very pleasing sensation of madness overtakes you. You sigh with pleasure something goes lightly to your head, then: "Ah," you knowingly remark, "it is that Capri...
...while the adventure into chivalry of this sort appeals to the envious imagination of the home front, it is probably with a sigh of relief that the returning veterans contemplate the friendly opportunity of shaking the warm, limp hand of a president...
...have seen times when twenty-five dollars would ransom a king, and ten dollars was a fortune, but when Harvard, famed for its indifference and its gray matter, resumes again the antics of its prep school-days, and we cannot help but sigh. --The Radcliffe Daily...
...carol "the brightest hour must end" and the hunters par excellence, the glory of their age must leave their royal master. Sportsmen sigh, men of fashion are beginning to attend automobile shows and shop girls sob. Everywhere are heard encomiums tinctured with the sorrow of seeing the brilliance of the present fading into the obscurity of the past. Great metropolitan newspapers weep by the column for the glory that once shone on these princely steeds. The world is mourning and grimly faces the dark future...