Word: breath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...million feet tramp-tramping through ankle-deep snow. Night coming on. Torches, banners, the roar of the Internationale from half a million throats. White breath & red noses. People stamping and shouting to keep warm. Men and women from everywhere-mostly Russians, but Tartars too, Uzbeks, Little Russians, White Russians, Tadjiks, Chinese students and a group of Communist literati from New York, just arrived but exulting with the boldest. Thus last week Moscow staged one of the largest, most impressive demonstrations in Soviet history, as her second, epochal Counter-Revolutionary Trial began (TIME...
...just the opposite. On July 5, 1929 I arrived on a liner from France with some trepidation and three full-sized and ten small-sized bottles of liquor. My method of attack was the same as that of Mrs. Robbins, but the outcome was entirely dissimilar. After regaining his breath after my declaration (oral, by the way) of the 13 bottles contained in my luggage, the customs official merely said: "Tell me which suitcase they are in so that I can miss them." I still have the bottles (empty now) to back up my story...
...front cover) If a stadium were built big enough to hold all the U. S. football public at one time, it would be big enough to hold the entire population of Chicago, Paris, or of Rome, Hamburg and Glasgow put together. Its breath rising in a vast faint mist, its shout like the roar of an earthquake, its tiered ranks veiled with the smoke of innumerable cigarets, its tremendous stare as heavy as sunlight, this crowd in its fabulous coliseum has no equal in the world. Once the crowd was one-quarter its present size. It was composed of undergraduates...
...Fred's profession. Author Herbert's account of a trip up the "Cut" from London to Birmingham will teach you better.) Fred was honest and capable, but gave Jane nary a thrill. Ernest was a bright one, talked socialism at her 16 to the dozen; when he paused for breath took liberties. Jane did not really like him but he did excite her. But when handsome, aristocratic Artist Bryan gave her an absent-minded kiss, got her to pose for him in the nude, Jane lost her heart...
Significance. Most German papers viewed with suspicion Il Duce's stand for revision of the Peace Treaties?the thing Germany most wants?because he uttered in the same breath a rallying cry to Adolf Hitler's German Fascists. Said Berlin's Socialist Vorw?...