Word: yawns
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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...
...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...
...Yawn...
...case. One morning he came to court carrying typewritten sheets, which he distributed to his confreres, to all the lawyers, and the judge. On the sheets was an original composition-a poem by Sumner R. Kilmarx entitled ''The Jurors' Lament." Excerpt: The Justice nods, the jurors yawn, The hours tick away. But still the lawyers argue, And the case drags on its way. We came here in the prime of life, The cause of right to seek. But age is creeping on us As we ponder week by week...
...form various artistic groupings by means of a whip, chair and frequently used revolver. Mr. Beatty's most showmanlike beast is Kazan, a large old lion who quails and cowers very perceptibly when the trainer stares him into submission. But occasionally Kazan is unable to stifle a yawn...