Word: sighing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the Senate hung five reservations on the proposed entrance of the U. S. into the World Court last January, it heaved a sigh of thankfulness that the child of international brotherhood was pacified. But the Adherent Powers of the World Court ignored the Senate's labors until September, and then swathed the U. S. reservations with counter-reservations. And so the child is back again. The next session of Congress will have to do something...
...woman's wiles. I need not tell my readers how the Forecast heart beat quicker and the Forecast pulse raced faster. Suffice to say, I was in love. But when I pressed my suit, she (her name shall not be handled about in the public press) said with a sigh, "I'm afraid we could never get along, Joe. You're so darned perfect." That's the sort of thing I've had to contend with all my life. But did I give...
...President strode from his cabin bedroom, gave one last sigh as he gazed at fog-covered St. Regis Mountain, took one last peek into the woods around White Pine Camp. Then he awakened Mrs. Coolidge and they drove to the railroad station with the Bartons, without their breakfast coffee...
...astounding hiatus on the bookshelves of science, Dr. Arthur MacDonald, U. S. anthropologist, wrote a letter to the Lancet, printed with the editorial, asking people everywhere to describe to him just how different people die. Whether a person dies in the sweaty writhings of agony or with the weary sigh of resignation, whether he rattles with final rales or lets his breath cease gently, Dr. MacDonald wants to know. It will be interesting to know truthfully how long before death famed men devise their "last" wise words; how long before utter extinction the moribund can sense the torturing presence...
...differed little in mien from a U. S. college undergraduate. He conversed readily, fluently; talked of sport, history, politics; reminisced modestly of his grandfather; spoke of his mother, famed and able Bertha Krupp, with restrained admiration and affection. Then he would sigh for his oppressed people, adding that Germany nevertheless was trying to forget War hurts, hates, scars. The press quoted him as saying that never again would the Krupp works be used for munitions. Wilmington soon began to comment on this vigorous representative of Germany's youth...