Word: yearn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young and healthy and capable of earning her own living, she should do so. But. more and more, we see around us middle-aged couples who, after having lived together comparatively happily for many years, suddenly reach the divorce courts, usually because the men, now at the Dangerous Age, yearn for young blood. Is there no moral obligation due these women who have given the best years of their lives to their husbands, borne them children, spurred them on to success? They are now, unlike their fickle husbands, past the age of desirability in either the business or the marriage...
Your newly acquired sports colyumnist, W. F. C. ("Hank") Foster is one of the most naively humorous writers in contemporary journalism! His contributions, coming in the midst of all the serious chapel business, are really refreshing. They make me yearn for the pleasant days in Freshman English when our theses, anecdotes, and disquisitions used to be read aloud before a squirming audience...
...Priestley's broadside, illogical and uninformed as it is, serves American snobbery jolly well right. Year after year we submit to the patronage of a procession of such visitors, turn the other cheek, and apparently yearn for a third, that we might also turn it. "If it takes whole lecture shiploads of Mr. Priestleys to make the long lethargic American worm turn, then I am for whole lecture shiploads of visiting patronizers seeking American patronage." Charles Dickens was among the first British novelists to profit from cracking America across the face;† and, as Mr. Priestley said last week...
Today English children wait for Guy Fawkes' Day with its fireworks and burnings-in-effigy as eagerly as U. S. tots yearn for July 4. English lexicographers know that to "do a guy" is to "do a bunk" or "decamp." As a noun "guy" means in England any sort of effigy or grotesque figure. The following example of correct usage of this noun is classic...
Public stands, on the other hand, frequented by independents and small operators, are confined by law to corners ''where they will be out of traffic and of greatest service to the public." To taxi men this law merely defines an unprofitable place to park. They yearn for stands in front of the Paramount and Lafayette theatres after the midnight show break, Small's and Connie's Inn (Harlem night clubs) after 2.30 a.m., and lower Fifth Ave., but at no such spots are public stands allowed. Enterprising independents instruct their drivers how to creep...