Word: sighing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years 1926-29. Capone, the letters showed, got one-sixth of the income from his syndicate's operations. As the letters were read over the strenuous objections of Snorkey's attorneys, who maintained a lawyer could not "confess" for his client, Attorney Fink heaved a sigh. "Oh, my conscience!" he sighed. "They've got him nailed to the cross...
September is here--and thousands of sport writers breathe a sigh of relief and greet the football season with two-inch headlines. Once more the stadiums swarm like great cement hives and raucous crowds watch the big blue, green, red, or gold team sweep to victory. Again the great God Pigskin is enshrined in the hearts of the mob and "over-emphasis," "commercialism," and "subsidization" lead the catchwords flung back and forth among athletic purists, writers, directors, and old grads...
...provincial French town but once a rover who murdered for money, is confronted with a man whom he thinks he recognizes as his old crony in crime. He is all ready to leave the country when he discovers the man is not his old pal after all, heaves a sigh, goes on being mayor...
...This] book is emphatically not intended for sappy souls who sigh for inspiration, in the hope of being kicked upstairs. ... It is a work book. In the hands of a lusty toiler, it will show solid profits." No trilling Pippa of pedagogy, no profound Paracelsus either, Professor Pitkin is nothing if not practical, hates waste, is hot after results. In this Pitkinesque textbook, thumb-printed with many a helpful hint, anecdote, rule, bristling with statistics and questionnaires, you may spend some lively hours, may even learn something about learning...
...vitality of photograph it easily equaled Town & Country. Text and drawing exhibited well the New Yorker technique but missed the master's polished cough and sigh. Only false note was a great photograph of, and leading article by, Randolph Churchill, jejune son of Winston, whose relation to Cleveland, if any, was nowhere explained. After that each page went well until the last which consisted of leering, Winchellesque questions without printed answers, e. g.: "Who is the minister who has the most complete collection of pornography in the city?" "Who is the financial power whose wife remarked when a maid...