Word: sighingly
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With a $30 million sigh of relief, 20th Century-Fox finally brought Elizabeth Taylor and a real live six-inch Egyptian asp within striking distance of one another for the death scene in Cleopatra. "The asp," said Fox flacks somewhat ambiguously, "has been in training for two months...
...those who will not be with us in September, a sigh and hearty wishes for good fortune. For those who will stay in Cambridge over the summer, a reminder: the Summer News will be published twice weekly. And for the lucky, who leave to return again, a promise that though we pack up our puppets now we shall bring everyone one of them out again in the Fall...
Meanwhile, the enigma. He goes on writing. If you talk of pain, he will sigh. If you talk of heroism, he will smile expansively. If, after this you ask him why he writes, he will probably shrug and keep his silence. What is there to say? Like the rest of us, he is only human. "I write," he says, "because I am miserable if don't write...
...humor of In dem Schatten meiner Locken ("In the shadow of my tresses, my lover fell asleep"), where the phrase "Weck'ich ihn nun auf? Ach nein!" ("Shall I wake him? Ah no"), repeated three times, was first coy, then a bit reproachful, and finally just the merest sigh of content. The Wolf group was lengthened by two encores, which Miss Schwarzkopf announced and (bless her!) translated: an exultant Ich hab' in Penna (a catalogue of lovers: one each in Penna, Maremma, Ancona, Viterbo, Casentino, and Magione; four in La Fratta, "und zehn in Castiglione," and a magnicently dramatic performance...
Died. Sir Philip Gibbs, 84, who in 1914 became one of Fleet Street's first accredited war correspondents, was knighted for his dashing, idealistic dispatches from the trenches, spent the postwar years writing optimistic books on world peace and in 1939 returned to war corresponding with the bleak sigh: "Has it been 21 years or seven days' leave?"; of pneumonia; in London...