Word: sighingly
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Telephone receivers in the hands of scores of city editors banged down one morning last week and the several gentlemen leaned back in their chairs with a sigh of momentary contentment...
...What more agreeable than the enthusiasm a woman knows how to awaken in a man? What more charming, thrilling than the first kiss; what brings a more profound sigh of relief than the last...
...Rita. Who would be likely to open a Manhattan theatre of dreamy elliptical architecture, hung with gorgeous tapestries, rich with color? Florenz Ziegfeld. In it he presented no Follies last week, but a musical comedy with fresh, feathery ballet dancers and a chorus that made strong men sigh. Rio Rita had a plot-something to do with oil leases and statesmen. A plot however, is mere parsley when the eyes and ears are well feasted. Pinwheel. Expressionism went on a debauch at the Neighborhood Playhouse (Manhattan) last week. Coney Island calliopes tooted, factory whistles shrieked, elevated trains jangled, klaxons yowled...
...Beethoven in Valhalla might smile a trifle bitterly to see his earthly origin made so much of. Immortals, he might sigh, are never allowed to forget that they once were born. That the French are willing to hear him again with honor would hardly yield much gratification to one who would have every right to consider it only their loss if they didn't. Nevertheless in scouting the notion that there is the slightest connection between musical scores and political treaties, Beethoven in Valhalla might have forgotten something about Beethoven in Vienna. Perhaps during the celebration the capital of France...
...Nelta, and beheld that wonderful trick of nature which the French call la grande corbeille. It is a little gem of an oasis, set deep down in a ring of enormous sand dunes, with masses of feathery date palms swaying above the cool waters of the spring. With a sigh of relief, we plunged down the slopes into the cool, jasmine-scented air to make our last camp...