Word: yawned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yawns & Galluses. Through the fast-moving telecamera, the balloting, the demonstrations, the tub-thumping speeches and sweating caucuses looked bigger and more exciting than they actually were. It was the delegates who gave the convention most of its strawberry festival flavor -a homy mixture of galluses, shirtsleeves, palmetto fans, odd hats and lax faces. Most televiewers lost the thread of Senator Wherry's address, because of the woman in the background who blandly read a newspaper. Other strikingly human glimpses: a girl delegate smothering a yawn behind her compact during a dull speech; the grave face of a Puerto...
Indications were strong that nothing would happen. Vice-president Bob "Yawn" Crichton '50 gostured vaguely in the general direction of the Union, and murmured from behind his satyr-like visage, "Union, nice place to live, no quorum. But it's so far from Cronin's . . ." and he lapsed into customary hordrontalism...
...intense family man, and a curiosity among show people because he begins to yawn around 11 p.m. He has patiently steered his children* through their emotional mumps and ideological measles (bursts of radicalism here, seizures of Oxonian ambitions there). He is their idol, up to a point. When son Jimmy, at 13, wrote a piece of music (he goes in for pretty serious stuff), his mother suggested that he show it to Dad. "Aw," said Jimmy, "he'd just want to write the lyrics...
Yaaah! In San Jose, Calif., a woman left her dentist with her completely toothless mouth painted a bright purple, spotted a gentleman friend outside and playfully gave him a great big purple yawn, felt rather foolish when he turned out to be a total stranger...
...advantage of being under suspicion and looks like a million dollars in counterfeit money. Miss Barrymore, trapped in foolish lines and a none-too rewarding role, appears often to be debating whether to kid the daylights out of her job or to throw it, with a queenly yawn, at Director Gregory Ratoff's head. But the habits of a lifetime prove too much for her, and foolish role or not, she gets off some first-rate croaks and eyeflashes...