Word: boredly
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...Nelson cried that she had borne a son and started to hang up. A neighbor, however, snatched the receiver, yelled over the phone: "She's going to have a twin." The doctor: "Let me talk to Mrs. Nelson again." For five more minutes Mrs. Nelson followed telephoned directions, bore her second son, sighed. "Thank you, doctor," and hung...
...rain, if there were a god, was thinking Let it not be restricted to the very wise, the very great, but let all breathing kind, the munchers and chewers. the ignorant, the unhappy, those who toil in the furnace making innumerable copies of the same pot. those who bore red hot minds through contorted letters, and also Mrs. Jones in the alley, share my bounty...
...years, Thy love hath led us, Thou hast been our bulwark strong, Wall of fire against the wicked, Sword of power against the wrong. Thou hast blest of old Thy servants As they bore Thy message far; We who follow in their footsteps Evermore their debtors...
...answer the telephone at night and 2) having to pay 70% of his income to the Government. For a while he dabbled with a string of race horses, has lately bought up and combined Toronto's Globe and Mail & Empire (TIME, Nov. 30). But he admits that newspapers bore him, and no one has yet discovered why he set up his broker, C. George McCullagh, as a bigtime publisher...
...Michael finally died a natural death. Her Maughamish reaction to the realization that she no longer loved her husband was to stretch, sigh with relief, murmur: "By God, it's grand to be one's own mistress." Now she saw Michael as nothing but a crashing bore, but she had sense enough to stick by him. He was a good manager, a first-rate director. Except for one accidental lapse, Julia was completely faithful to him till she was 46. Then one day Michael brought a young accountant home to lunch. There was nothing remarkable about...