Word: yearning
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...narrow steel beam as fast as the next man. The picture made its point. Richard Dix is acceptable as the young man. Frances Howard, who recently married Samuel Goldwyn amid excited publicity, seemed rather slight and spiritless. The Talker. This ponderous project indicates that, even if a woman must yearn for a career, she must not talk about it around the family fireside. This wife talked and put bad ideas into one young lady's head which did her no good; the husband was nearly snared by a stenographer. Many expensive actors were wasted on all this-Lewis Stone...
...revulsion of feeling among European settlers against the observed Ethiopian craze for personal adornment? The urge for decoration moves both the European courtier and the dusky noble. The Capetown celebrity, who has seen the necks of native chiefs hung with alarm-clocks and frying-pans, may yearn with less avidity for the Order of the Garter or of the Bath. The gap between medals and tatooing is no greater than that between Picadilly and the jungle...
Much as Mr. Arthur D. Little may yearn for a society in which the pure light of reason exercises its true worth, it is highly probable that the power of his newly invented Fifth Estate will remain the hope of an armchair, philosopher...
Came the War. Benito caught fire of d'Annunzio, and in 1919 he said: "I yearn for a paganizing people, loving life, struggle, progress, not blindly believing in revealed truths, nay despising miraculous pharmacopoeia. It has no room in an intense movement of minds and activities for formulae, parties and men monopolizing divine 'specifics...
...must retire on Sept. 13, at the age limit of 64. No more the khaki and the Sam Brown belt. Dressed like plain John Citizen, the baker, the butcher, the politician and the banker, he will go his way modest ly in mufti. Ofttimes, doubtless, he will yearn for his military life, its punctilio and its elan. But the rule of the Army is inexorable, and John Jo seph Pershing likes it for its unyieldingness...