Word: sighing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stables are bare where once stood the proud steeds of an imperial prince. The glistening, silky backs that one time bore the heir to the British throne through many of the most brilliant hunts that the world has seen, are doomed to sigh under the weight of common people, unnoticed, ignored. The days of glory are passed and stark realism shatters the roseate glow of the skies of romance...
There seemed to come a sigh As Dempsey whispered...
...which has to do with human thought or speech or conduct can by any possibility be enforced. . . . If it be urged that all statutes . . . that have the form of law have also by reason of that very fact the full force and authority of law, then one can only sigh and repeat softly the immortal words of Mr. Bumble:* 'If the law supposes that, the law is a ass, a idiot . . . and the worst I wish the law is that his eye may be opened by experience...
...Elysee Palace a small golden clock tinkled ten. Jovial, florid Gaston Doumergue was settling contentedly to the digestion of his late presidential dinner. From the clock a low, rapid tik-tik-tik. From the President of France a contented, sleepy sigh. Felicity! Then a door yawned and in strode busy, kinetic M. Raymond Poincaré, the man who saved and stabilized the franc, the grizzled "Lion of Lorraine...
...commentary on politics and higher education when Republican corruption succeeds even in reaching undergraduates in college. Unlike its opponents, the Democratic Club with its ally, the Smith Robinson Club, makes no false claims of strength. Neither does it send its members madly dashing about with petitions, buttonholing passersby to sigh up for Hoover and the safety of the American home. It prefers to leave those tactics to the "dignified" Hooverites. Likewise have they found it unnecessary to create half a dozen organizations to include under the Hoover banner voters of both parties and every conceivable degree of undergraduate. It finds...