Word: sighingly
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This phrase is gradually becoming a kind of accolade, a guarantee of firm democratic principles, liberal views and the highest personal integrity and distinction. Were I a world statesman, I should sigh: "If I should die, think only this of me: 'The U.S. State Department did not entirely approve...
...Senator Thomas of Utah. Then the Senate Sergeant at Arms, ex-Senator Wall Doxey of Mississippi, and Assistant Sergeant at Arms William Moseley Miller of the House stepped forward to inform President Barclay that the House was awaiting him. The President and his entourage left the chamber. An audible sigh followed them. Henry Wallace, red-faced but relieved, relaxed...
Jimmy Byrnes only too happily handed Fred Vinson his job as OES director. Said Czar Vinson, who still had a sigh left: "I am smiling for the last time today...
...composer and the plugger of the nation's biggest song hit met last fortnight for the first time. The song: As Time Goes By ("A kiss is still a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh, the fundamental things apply as time goes by").* The composer: massive, white-haired Herman ("Dodo") Hupfeld, who wrote it in 1931. The plugger: a short, stocky Negro named (Arthur) Dooley Wilson, who started this forgotten ditty toward its sensational present success by the loving way he sang it in the Warner Bros, movie Casablanca (TIME, Nov. 30). Dodo and Dooley met at Manhattan...
...kindles the great. (sigh...