Word: sighing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York," he said with a sigh and a rapt look in his face. "I'll say it's a good town. Wish I could get down there. But there is one trouble with New York. There's so much competition. It's terrible. There ought to be a law against...
...third well up and laid her fourth dead. Flustered, Mrs. Higbie flubbed her chip-shot and on the next hole, climbing out of a bunker from which her ball had not climbed, she ran her fingers through her hair, pressed her wrists against her temples and with a sigh said softly, "Oh, dear me." Then she went over and congratulated Miss Collett. Next day Collett beat Mrs. Opel Hill, and the day after that took the finals and her fourth national title by beating plump, blonde Mrs. Harry Pressler, who asked people particularly not to call her Mrs. Harry Pressler...
Thus with a twinkle and a contented gastronomic sigh, Prime Minister Aristide Briand of France spoke to correspondents in Geneva last week, after a luncheon sure to be recorded as historic...
From allurements abroad which but flatter the eye The unsatisfied heart turns and says with a sigh...
...this season . . . is the fact that they have been attended by thousands of respectable young girls, either with the sanction, or in the company of, their parents or guardians. . . . [This] indicates such a general lack of ethical, as well as thetic qualities, as makes even the most liberal minded sigh for a return of the ascetic Puritan spirit which so sternly repressed certain forms of wrongdoing. . . . When daringly salacious scenes, songs and tableaux are wildly applauded, not only by evening audiences but at matinees where women predominate, the manager may quite naturally be expected to conclude that his production...