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Moaned one critic after the first act: "Albanese has returned, but she left her voice in America."

From Time Magazine Archive

Moaned Mollie: "I'm ready to crawl under a rock, or leave the country or something."

From Time Magazine Archive

Moaned Willie's attorney, who was fighting to un-sweeten Marghuerite's separation fee in a California court: "I hoped to be Willie's financial adviser, but it's turned out that I'm just a scorekeeper."

From Time Magazine Archive

Moaned a normally optimistic Egyptian official last week: "I am beginning to doubt that our generation will see peace between Israel and the Arabs."

From Time Magazine Archive

Often, Lady, hast thou listened, Often have thy blue eyes glistened, Where the summer evening breeze Moaned sadly through those lonely trees, Or with the fierce wind from the north Wrung their mournful music forth.

From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by Lowell, James Russell