Word: wailed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hope you will pardon this wail. I am indifferent whether you publish it now that I feel better for having said a word, probably crudely, in behalf of Curtis, one of your early subscribers who always boosts TIME and who introduced me to its delightful pages, who has since been promoted to Counselor of Embassy at Habana. DANIEL ROBERTS...
...young Anne Pedersdotter, second wife of the old village pastor, guilty sweet heart of his son. To satisfy her love, she casts the spell of death upon her old husband. Accused by her mother-in-law, she shrinks from the trial by touch and oath, confesses with a wail of misery and despair her witchcraft, goes to feed another Lutheran bonfire...
...Janeiro one night in 1886 to conduct Aida by heart and win fame thereby. . . . But most of all, since his name occurred most often, one thought of Pietro Mascagni, and the curious stories that are told about this baker's son, whose life has been a wail redeemed...
Felix Dzerzhinsky, chairman of the Supreme Soviet Economic Council, emitted last week a poignant wail...
...race that began on the front page of the Herald-Tribune, Grantland Rice, star writer (believed to have originated the phrase, "Now the goalposts loomed upon the deepening shadow . . .") set a record. As a noun and in adjectival form, he used the word "rhythm" sixteen times, as follows: Spurts Wail Before Elis Rhythmic Beat . . . the flawless rhythm of Ed Leader. . . Yale's rhythmic beat. . . . blessed with the finer rhythm and ... It was all rhythm . . . Rhythm that Milton and Byron might have . . . lesson in rhythm . . . that matchless-, Yale's magi c , the marvelous -, the same unbeatable-, a matter...