Word: sighingly
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...Washington last week, President C. Zabel Robinson of the U. S. College of Veterinary Surgeons sadly passed out diplomas to the four members of the graduating class; with a sigh, announced that the college, founded 35 years ago, was thenceforth discontinued. Few men care to become horse doctors...
...from A. Hamilton Gibb's novel, Soundings, the cocky Lothario finds that a glance from Nancy (Lois Moran) plumbs depths of emotion hitherto unknown and strangely captivating. Most of this goes on in Flanders Fields where he is a soldier and she an ambulance driver; where one may sigh for a battered village and smile at pompous officers...
...Such at least is the opinion set forth in an editorial in "Liberty" which takes up the cause of natural expressions such as "He don't" and "It's me" as opposed to the stilted "He doesn't" and "It's I." "Ain't," the writer admits with a sigh, is gradually losing ground in its fight to supplant the awkward "am not" or "aren...
...futile to cavil at trifles! After the first five minutes of your visit to fairyland, Iolanthe and her sisters will have captivated you completely, and you will find that you have gone back at least ten years. And inevitably you will join the ranks of those who sigh at the mention of either play and chortle "Oh, yes, the march of the Peers," or "When a coster leaves off beating up his mother...
...GENERATION?By "One of Us."?Century ($1.50). If they could believe that "One of Us," aged 17, is typical, the shakers of heads at contemporary adolescence would sigh with relief. She speaks, like her elders and Dr. Holmes's woodpecker, solemnly of unimportant things. "Bright as a button" well describes her. She is as wholesome as spinach. As for her generation (unless as may be, she is utterly typical), it will be faintly disturbed by writing which for docile triteness resembles nothing so much as one of Dr. Prank Crane's high-school themes. It is to be hoped...