Word: breathed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...makes admirable reading. It is a direct and human story, normal and natural, told without a breath either of conscious advertisement, or of unreal humility. It is written with quick and nervous energy. There is much deft description, shrewd comment, and keen insight. All through it runs a virile loyalty, and a disciplined enthusiasm which marks the spiritual expert. It is skillfully condensed, giving a true perspective and a clear impression...
...truth, like murder, must out, I shall have to confess that it was with many misgivings that I took up "Brother Saul," After reading his other books there was a lurking fear that this one might not quite be up to their standard. Could this writer, the breath of whose nostrils is Ireland, and who in his other works writes, figuratively speaking, with emerald ink--could he so far forget his mountains and heather moors as to be able to transport himself back to the Palestine and Rome of some 2,000 years ago and enter into the spirit...
Over mountains, across deserts, between corn fields, down a thousand Main Streets goes the jogging army?Arabs, Finns, great Danes, bandy-legged Italians, blackamoors, Kansans, Californians, Georgians, the Tarahumura Indians of Chihuahua, Mexico, whose sandals go clump-hua-clump-hua. . . . They sit in ditches and catch their breath. They sleep in haystacks, hotels, Hupmobiles. They suck lemons, swallow dry toast, regird their loins and start jog-jog-jogging again. Only the fools sprint. It is 3,000 miles from Los Angeles to Manhattan, where a $25,000 prize, fat vaudeville contracts and the plaudits of a multitude await the first...
...Detroit, one Edward Herring, 50, walked near the river to catch a breath of fresh air. He hesitated for a moment in front of the Superior Smoked Fish Co. Down plunged a keg of pickled herrings from a third-story window sill, felled Mr. Herring...
Harvard: The chairman of the Student Council apparently racked his brains to think of a restriction of any kind and seached diligently through a booklet entitled Regulations for Students in Harvard College. Then he referred us to page 14, whereon, with bated breath, we read the following underlined words: "No student shall keep a dog in a college building." Vassar Miscellany News, April...