Word: breath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weather") you do a grave injustice to my quondam mentor and still esteemed friend, the Head Tutor of Lowell House, whose services to the crew, back in '31, still live vividly in the recollections of those privileged to row in that remarkable boat. Has the present generation forgotten that breath-taking race against Dunster House for the Thunder Mug (the original gold plated porcelain trophy) when number 7 jumped from his slide at the second stroke but counted his flesh as naught against the race? Or the famous regatta in which the Bell-boys, their whiskers blowing to the winds...
...reviewer first approached, Mr. Nagel said in one breath, "My pet aversions are sweetened cornbread and night clubs, now what do you want to know?" The actor gave a talk on Tuesday on censorship, an address which came in for a share of criticism during the interview. "If censors are sincere in their desire to eradicate filth." Nagel remarked, "they will direct their efforts to all sources of filth. The censors now spend most of their time getting their names in the papers by either attacking the movies or the stage. This produces an effect upon the public which...
...broad back, her mighty arms and legs, and ample breasts that suckled those ungrateful brats. Her dress is torn, her hair is mussed, and sweat stands on her cheeks, "wrinkled deep in time". But there is a red in her lips, a sparkle in her eyes, and her breath is as sweet as the breath of an old mooly cow. She holds her latest baby under the crook of her arm, and hustles along.--Quoted by Dean Mendell in an address printed in the Yale Alumni Weekly...
...behalf of Mr. Youmans, it may be argued that no composer could have breathed the breath of life into Miss Cowl's weepy drama...
...University of Michigan Hospital at Ann Arbor, Virgil Bailey. 30. farmer, last week realized what an uncommonly deep breath he had taken five years before. At that time he had inhaled while in a dental chair. The dentist was changing a burr in his tooth drill. The burr slipped from the dentist's fingers, disappeared. The dentist surmised that it fell in some fold of his or Virgil Bailey's clothes, hunted no further. But Virgil Bailey had inhaled the burr. Lately deep-breathing Mr. Bailey experienced chest pains. X-rays showed the burr in the lower lobe...