Word: sighingly
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...happiest little woman In all this little town; And my merry laugh and singing Takes the place of sigh and frown...
...fine leg, which I never knew before." So sought after was he, so gay and dandified, that benign Lord Melbourne was moved to inquire: "Well now, tell me,what do you want to be?"?"I want to be Prime Minister."?"No, no," Lord Melbourne replied with a sigh...
...this would be a rather lugubrious picture, a poser in justifying the ways of God to man, if it were not for the joy and gladness which it must bring to all the good people of Boston and Cambridge. Tradesmen of the Square breathe a sigh of relief and replace the Kollege Kut Klothes in their window with unmatched suits and complements of a more sober hue. The period of depression is over. The college boys are back, and better to have long-running bills than no business...
Back of this gentle fable is fashioned a magnificent background of race humor, pathos, song and hot-blooded simplicity. Dice click, spirituals sigh and scream, superstition stalks and little children chatter. For this background the piece is chiefly notable. The play itself is not a masterpiece. The acting is brilliantly accounted for by a troupe seized from the dusky depths of the vagrant Negro theatre...
...series of public initiations to an old and distinguished society which has long flourished in Harvard College the Hasty Pudding-Institute of 1770. If the spectacle afforded by these exhibitions is to be regarded as typical of the organization's attitude and sense of humor then one can only sigh for the return of a more puritanical regime. That these displays have any claim to respectability there can be no question: they are disgusting, vulgar,--they are nauseating. They only excuse for their presence is the laughter which they might evoke. And this fall, the climax of several years...