Word: yearned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...major political concession which Dr. Stresemann has sought for years-one for which Germans yearn with a passionate desire not fully realized in other countries-is swift, complete evacuation of the 60,000 Allied troops still occupying the Rhineland. Last week the short, soft fingers of the statesman from Berlin seemed to have virtually within their stubby grasp an Anglo-French agreement to evacuate the Rhineland at the latest...
...shows. Rockbound is about a salty family caught in the fishnets of circumstance on the Maine coast. Maw and Paw Higgins derive no poetic ecstacies from their native rocks and waves, but they are fairly well adjusted until Maw's long-lost illegitimate daughter returns and begins to yearn for her halfbrother. Events then seethe through Paw's discovery of Maw's sins to one of those scenes in which dire offstage happenings-a girl about to leap from the rocks-are described by frenzied actors who unaccountably remain on the stage. The dank chronicle was written...
...which not even a penny postcard can do justice. When the Munson liner Munargo anchors outside the bar-guarded harbor and the stubby tender puts out from town with homegoers, people on shore feel sorry for people on the tender. People on the tender feel sorry for themselves. They yearn, usually, for "just one more cocktail, one last swim...
...readers are the little educated, barely literate mass-chiefly women-"who yearn for the better things in life"; and the "better things" that he gives them examples of are physical well being and stories of love and sin. The office girl on the street car, nuzzling into his current magazines sees photographs of Bernarr Macfadden, her physical pastor, wearing only a skimpy breechclout, his chest hairless. He is illustrating "How I keep fit at Fifty-Eight." Yet pictures of girls predominate in the periodicals. A favorite female pose is the sway-back with the mons veneris thrown forward. An advertisement...
...United States Steel Corporation has never cut a melon, although it has more than half a billion dollars in surplus. Many common stockholders yearn for this usufruct of 25 years' waiting which Judge Elbert Henry Gary, chairman of the Board, has placidly withheld. Men had tried to tease the Judge into resigning at the April stockholders meeting. They had urged that he was an old man turned 80, had been with U. S. Steel since its inception in 1901, had made a batch of steel highbinders work together and actually practice his ethics in business. U. S. Steel...