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Word: breath (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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They'll snow hot devils in and make them cool. Your breath will melt and shrivel it.?Now puff, you puffers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: A Man | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

...awkward, stooping little fighter advanced, his gloves now at his head for relief from the hammering it was getting, and now in furious, smashing action against the ribs and head of his opponent. The little fighter's flat nose, freshly broken, bubbled redly as he snorted for breath. His head rocked as punch after punch landed on it. But on & on he went, crowding, slamming, tearing in like a madman trying, to whip a triphammer. Madison Square Garden, jammed to the eaves, thundered with bloodthirsty applause and excitement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Madman v. Triphammer | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

...Lost Squadron (RKO), instead of being about flyers in the War, is about flyers performing in a cinema about flyers in the War. While not exactly a breath-taking stroke of originality, this helps give The Lost Squadron a freshness of viewpoint which informs even the routine stretches of the picture. It also permits the inclusion of one character almost entirely new to the cinema: a violent, loudly clothed, arrogantly posturing Hollywood director. The behavior of this director and his name?Von Furst?suggest that

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 21, 1932 | 3/21/1932 | See Source »

...Hugget's place, since the death of her husband, showed more shabbiness than gentility, the Stevenses were faithful once again. With meticulous detail Author Sherriff recounts their departure from London, the thrilling railway journey, their stay in Bognor. Nothing happens except that for two weeks they all breathe free. Their mutual affection, having survived the cooping of their poor city life, turns outward to the world at large. Mr. Stevens meets old cronies at the pub; Dick has an inspiration to become an architect; Mary does a little sparking on the sly. After their breath of fresh air they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Goodness at Bognor | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

...fails to develop her side of the relationship, however, and presently appears in scenes of tragic squajor. An acute apondectomy is the event that brings her to the young doctor's hospital where he is the one who must operate. It is his first operation and with bated breath we watch him snip the offending organs with shiny instruments. As soon as the ether wears off, love is suitably rekindled...

Author: By E. W. R., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

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