Word: sighingly
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...took effect. Radu Polizu was disarmed and hustled out of the room. Another bomb, apparently a spare left over from the evening assassination, burst in the station waiting room wounding a small child who stepped on it by accident. The engineer of the funeral train pulled out with a sigh of relief...
...admired bits like a graveyard dance by an idiot girl and a candlelit trial of Joe The Fool for bigamy before 70 rabbis but found the rest dull, pompous, obscurely symbolical. After three nights. Mr. Frohman closed his first production in 22 years with an old man's sigh of dismay...
...first act was to cut every trunk telephone line in sight. Most conspicuous leader was one Sergeant Pip Sopena, lately transferred from the Ministry of War to a recruiting office in Badajoz for suspected Communism. Seventy-eight people were killed, many more wounded before the Government with a sigh of relief could declare the revolt well under control...
...said, "The word of Flynn [McKee's boss] is as light as a half-burned match." And should Judge Seabury, LaGuardia's boss, come into power, "He will, in my opinion, give us an example of iron discipline and arbitrary action that will make the town sigh for the gentleness of Croker or the softness of Murphy...
Professor Abbott is perfectly comfortable, perfectly at home on the lecture platform. He seats himself in a swivel chair, places his notes and his elbows on the desk, gives vent to a sigh, perhaps even a puff, and begins. Fifteen minutes contain a dignified, non-irritating drone, dedicated to the fact that Gladstone had gained a reputation as a great minister of finance. Then there may be an interruption. The professor will rub his eyes. He will give assurances that the following story is amusing. The story will consume five minutes. There will be renewed assurances that the story...