Word: yearned
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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...
...pleaded guilty to keep Bishop Cannon's name out of court, last week led Nebraska's Senator Norris, chairman of the Judiciary Committee who appointed the subcommittee on lobbying, to promise an investigation of a report that Goldhurst's sentence had been commuted to two yearn, and to find out "who is sponsoring appeals for clemency...
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...
...things for which the hearts of tabloid newspaper editors currently yearn, one of the dearest is news-or even the barest rumor, hint or factitious mention-of a baby which tabloidom hopes and prays is soon going to be born to the Charles Augustus Lindberghs. Evidence of the depth of this yearning was furnished last week by the New York Daily News. When Col. Lindbergh landed at Newark Airport with Dwight Whitney Morrow, that famed father-in-law who wants to be nominated for the Senate by New Jersey's Republicans beckoned to him for political-photographic purposes...
Next to Japan, Hungary is the most monarchial nation, all the more so because it has no monarch. As U. S. citizens yearn for liquids the Constitution forbids, so Hungarians, because the Allies will not permit the restoration of the Habsburgs, passionately want a king...