Word: breath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past ten years I have read your column with bated breath. I might as well say right at the start that I think it's marvelous the way you have kept it up to its high inspirational note throughout these long and happy years. The Student Vagabond has a Big Message. I think and I think that you have stuff to put it over. As my last professor in English A said about Shakespeare: "his dashing vigour of phrase has all the earmarks of diablerie in pen and ink." And her I am saying it about you! Well...
...Commission's contradictions, wondered what this new contradiction might mean. While emphasizing that his Commission did not favor repeal, the President had played down the fact that a majority of his Commission favored immediate revision. In emphatically repudiating his Commission's suggested method for revision and in the same breath rehearsing his "own duty" to enforce the law "without equivocation or reservation," he had apparently slammed the revision door shut in his Commission's face. The Commission had reported Wet. The President had plumped Dry?more squarely than he ever plumped since entering politics. What did it all mean...
...city editor of a sensational paper whips up his rewrite men like a dance director badgering a troop of chorus girls. "Write this story over again," he growls. "And put some menace into it. Give it some bated breath! Get excited! How can you expect the readers to get excited if you don't get excited yourself?" Last week Walter Lippmann, able, scholarly editor of the New York World, predicted an early disappearance of bated-breath or "yellow" journalism for the reason that the collective public palate cannot long remain unjaded. "When everything is dramatic, nothing after a while...
...radio," he said, "is my true medium of expression. If is may breath and my life. Here, in a thestre I may reach three thousand people a day, but my radio audiences are up in the millions I give them simply music of a kind that many people like. My popularity has not diminished the fame of Whiteman and the others, for I have only brought out another element in a direct appeal to the heart...
...quiet and graphic prose about the little fishing villages flattened on the edge of the Red Sea; pelicans floating like foam-patches in the nervous water; skinny brown fishermen bringing in their shallow boats, piled with the flashing, heavy silver bodies of fish. You can smell the hot breath of Sanaa, see its turbaned merchants, Jewish watchmakers, fleabitten curs, and bearded princes. Al-Yemen reproduces a life apparently contemporaneous with the events described in the New Testament, but having no connection with them. Best shot: Hodeda's ship-bristling harbor...