Word: sighingly
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...heavy Lionelesque gasps and wheezes he told how Ethel had helped him into his first big part when "I burst like a chrysalis on Broadway and knocked them for a row of Chinese pagodas. . . . I've never been so good since.'' With a melancholy, boot-reaching sigh he then exclaimed, somewhat irrelevantly: ''The corn is green. The corn is green. How green is the corn? I don't know, but I bet Jack will...
...West Point, etc.-but decided that Byzantine would look better on Park Avenue. On a Mediterranean cruise he eyed churches in Greece, Italy and Turkey as models, visited quarries and factories to get the marbles and materials he wanted. At last week's dedication he heaved a sigh of relief because everything had arrived safely. Narrowest squeak: the tesserae (small pieces of marble, glass, gold leaf and enamel) which make up the apse's mosaics. Shipped from Venice, they got out just before World War II put a stop to imports from Italy...
...eyed man in riding boots and breeches and a dark whipcord tunic looked down on the sparkling sea from a huge plane. He had finished reading his dispatches. The steward came along the cabin balancing a tray. "Tea, sir?" The man declined it. Then with a pleasant sigh the man leaned back in his seat, opened a book of Browning's poems, and lost himself...
Conservative Episcopalians could reminiscently sigh for the attitude of their sister Church of England, which does not recognize divorce even in the case of adultery, much less marriage after divorce. The Church of England's lay head, Edward VIII. discovered that to his cost when he decided to marry Wallis Warfield Spencer Simpson...
...fantasy about U. S. Inventor Thomas Alva Edison. In Adam's The Future Eve, "le wizard de Menlo Park" meditates and mourns that his phonograph was invented too late to record the really great sounds of human history -the blaring of the trumpets of Jericho, Memnon's sigh to the dawn and "the superb whisper of Creation itself: Fiat...