Word: breath
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With the calm of a great surgeon, which he is, President Dr. Ramon Grau con tinued last week to sign breath-taking decrees in the small hours of the night. Scratch-the Presidential pen dismissed famed Manhattan Lawyer Thomas L. Chadbourne, author of the Chadbourne Plan of world sugar crop restriction from his post as President of the Cuban Na tional Sugar Exporting Corp. (see p. 48). Official reason: "Mr. Chadbourne is a foreigner." Scratch-Surgeon Grau signed an agra rian decree bestowing on every "indigent farmer" in Cuba 33 acres of land, a yoke of oxen...
...caricature in which J. C. Nugent, father of Cinema-Director Elliot Nugent, turns himself into the spitting image of the type of character that Cartoonist W. E. Hill draws in Among Us Mortals. Actor Nugent gets the best laugh in the play by the simple device of holding his breath. This causes him to grow red with apoplectic indignation in the third act when his wife tells his dinner guests, as he told hers the night before, about his humble origin...
...settled feeling which delves down to the soles of one's feet, which lets it be known that this is the drink of rugged individualism. There is something of the mountains of its birth in this Leadville Moon; those mountains are heavy, yet aspiring; they fall away in rugged, breath-taking scarps, and pyramid to jagged causeways of rock far above the clouds, descending again over soft alpine meadows and pastoral beauties; all this and more is to be found in Leadville Moon. It does not act like other drinks; it bowls one over, then replants...
...radio attachment which silences the set when music stops playing and someone begins to talk. The "robot" takes advantage of the fact that talkers must stop for breath. When it detects a quarter-second of silence it turns the set off for ten seconds, tries again & again until it gets continuous sound...
Roosevelt is keeping the unbalanced budget alive as a method of expanding purchasing power by promising to balance it in 1936, by implying that it is a temporary device, while yet in the same breath asking to increase the public debt by six billion dollars during the current year. If he actually does regard the device as a temporary one, then his astuteness is only unconscious, not Machiavellian, and in this case, it is entirely possible that he means to defiate purchasing power some day by balancing the budget at the expense of a future prosperity...