Word: decayed
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...will say "Farewell" (if they are so formal), and in truth the deserted and departed aspect of it will fit the mood of many, alike those who have received postals and those who have not. In the next few days, most of them will glory in the air of decay in which they perform the last rites and, between jumping on recalcitrant trunks and stuffing odd laundry cases, will heave the sighs of relief that indicate. "It is all over". One hopes that the return will be solaced by the arts of summer...
...verging on decay...
...Lisbon, a capital whose surpassing natural beauty and once imposing buildings have been overlaid in recent years by a scum of filth, poverty and decay, there occurred last week one more of the successful military insurrections which have rent the republic of Portugal since the overthrow of the monarchy...
...Kapnos," published in duodecimo size by the Southworth Press of Portland, Me., owes its form, the author states, to Logan Pearsall Smith's "Trivia." "Whereas Mr. Smith views life in a pretty way," says Patek, "in the quiet decay of a country gentleman, 'Kapnos,' contrastedly, is written from the viewpoint of youth and of the many wandering thoughts that strike youth and perhaps baffle...
Lion. As the week opened, Poland's most terrifying "lion," Marshal Joseph Pilsudski, was brooding upon his wrongs and the decay of the fatherland, at his country estate near Warsaw...