Word: sighing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With a sigh that will Mmmm...
This reviewer entered the awesome Loew's State theatre prepared to sigh for what might have been; to long for the scintillating gleam of a brilliant stage play in the face of a chaos of office-and-bedroom scenes on the screen. Robert Sherwood's sparkling drama of old and New Vienna shall be thought of in terms of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, said he to himself and properties and photography will at last get their share of criticism. But this plan never worked out. With the first scene the reviewer is in the thick of a play which...
...possession) without actually declaring war, Jackson was their first choice. Thinking this his last chore, he did it. When the cession of Florida was arranged, Jackson was made Governor of the new territory but gave up the post before the end of the year and went back with a sigh to his "Hermitage," to lead his declining years (he was 55) down the quiet path of a country gentleman. When his friends urged him to run for President he exclaimed: "Do they think I am such a damned fool? No, sir; I know what...
...striving to snatch the lime-light away from Prince Romanoff, L. Donovan Bisbee ocC., well-known undergraduate hoax and prolific correspondent, committed suicide, in his study in Leverett House yesterday morning. It is generally rumored that the mid-year exams were too much for his neurotic perpetrators. With a sigh of regret, the more eligible society matrons in Boston and vicinity will remove Bisbee's name from their door lists, for though he never appeared, he was much in demand...
...cold weather. ... It helps build up protection against colds. . . . "Just before retiring is a good time for hot milk. You take a glass of hot milk, sip slowly, then make one last readjustment of the pillows, snap out the light, pull the coverlets around your shoulders, give a little sigh, the sigh isn't absolutely necessary but usually is done, and the chances are greatly in favor of a good night's slumber descending before you have time to pick up again the count of sheep where you left off. "You don't have to wait until...