Word: breathed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...signal system for calling the actors and directing the production are among the many conveniences which the new Yale theatre affords. While Harvard has given up her great opportunity for a complete theatrical system which she herself started, is it not to be hoped that in the same breath with which we congratulate Yale on her success, that we hope that Harvard will some day sponsor a good theatre for dramatic performances...
...boots to find both feet frozen stiff," What this meant, in the midst of the howling desert, at that time of the year, with little food and less fuel and no medical attention is hard to imagine. But the laconic narrative proceeds, with the reader's breath bated, until Jayne is disposed of in the care of Dr. Kao, "full of Christianity and antiseptics." This leaves Mr. Warner free but lonely to make his scheduled dash to Tun Huang, the second objective of his journey, where lie the caves of the Thousand Buddhas. The aspect of these ancient gods fills...
...program which the Glee Club presents tonight could hardly be improved upon. Two or three numbers demand particular mention. One of the most beautiful is a choral by Bach with a flute obbligato, a lonely little miniature of delicately etched tone which rises, swells and is gone like a breath of increase. Immediately after it comes in old hymn by Vittorio. "Ovos Ommes," which, with its long singing, phrases and fire crescendos seems to each among the dim aisles and die softly away in the clowdy depths of the cathedral which it conjures up before the listener...
...jurors be kept under guard during the entire time of the trial. Said he: "We make this motion because of the tremendous importance of the case . . . and because it is first a charge of improper use of money, which amounts to bribery . . . and that no carping criticism and no breath of suspicion can be said, rightly or wrongly, to have interfered with the proper functioning of the machinery of justice in this case...
...American, a believer in democracy, it is not a refreshing spectacle to find that a once sane nation has substituted violence for justice and has no longer the faintest vestige of a free press, and a government which imposes injury and poverty on the smallest official who speaks a breath of criticism against it. ... Conditions are not growing better. My total impression was one of impending disaster. The country cannot continue under such a state of nerves and under such a dictatorship indefinitely. Something must happen-assassinations, wars or another revolution. It is not only that the conditions menace Italy...