Word: breath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mates, but last summer when she tried out some Weill on a Jewish audience, Brecht's German lyrics caused a near riot. Many in the audience stormed out, and one man began to scream at her, "Stop singing German!" Schlamme left the stage, soothed herself with a deep breath, then returned to the spotlight to freeze her remaining listeners with one final line. "I haven't been so frightened," she said, "since the Hitler Youth chased me down the street in Vienna...
...Gift is full of the gratuitous delights that a child finds in toys or picture books. Fyodor, like most young men who want to make their name and make love in the same breath, is a bit of a fool. In one wonderful scene his clothes are stolen as he polishes his poetry and suntan in a Berlin park. He would as gladly split a bottle as a hair...
...drawing of two pigs wallowing in the mud proclaiming "Come. Brother, let us root for dear old Princeton." And to cap it off, at half-time the Poonies put out a fake CRIMSON headlined "BILL ROPER, PRINCETON COACH, DIES ON FIELD". There was an explanatory drop line: "HRLD BREATH TOO LONG". The ill feeling were pretty generally forgotten by 1934, and the football series sprang up for keeps. Princeton won, incidentally...
...started smoking at eleven years old an' only stopped once to catch my breath...
...chain (founded in 1878). Thirty years Vail's senior, he still works like a dray horse, turning up at 6 every morning and averaging five hours of sleep a night. "We have a lot of young people on this paper,'' he says. "They keep their hot breath against my neck and the soles of their shoes against my back. But I'm one of those characters who gets his strength from work...