Word: yawns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...devotees think him continuously, screamingly funny, but their votes show that he stood high in popularity among U. S. madcaps. His latest, posthumous japery† is neither better nor worse than his past performances. Readers who found him amusing will chuckle, readers who did not will yawn, as heartily as ever over The Glorious Pool...
...yelling lustily as Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe lifts them from their incubators. He recognizes each one by weight and appearance as he calls out her name: Yvonne, Annette, Marie (in a bonnet), Cecile, Emilie. A nurse places them in a row on a table. Only Yvonne ceases squalling to yawn during the 30 seconds all five are in view...
When the janitor leads him into the museum library these evenings at 10 o'clock, Fine Arts students do not need to be told that the time for studying is over. Astor surveys the specialists with a disconcerting yawn...
...contentment of that yawn is the result of his sheltered years spent in the observation of Greek casts; broken only by morning strolls past the Union and down the hill by the College Library...
...Balkan has learned the difficult art of the "slow march," 50 dim, sweating figures executed a strange maneuver one midnight last week. Symbols of R. M. C.'s 134 years of crack officer-breeding are eight ponderous brass cannon whose snouts once faced the British at Waterloo, now yawn harmlessly on Sandhurst's lawn. The 50 dim figures scuttled toward them like ants toward dead beetles. The raiders' leader deployed his men, half a dozen to a cannon. The 50 tugged, pushed, panted. When the maneuver was finished, two cannon stood on the rugby field...