Word: breathed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italy, may they be blessed!" he screamed, brushing back his hair and consulting a handful of notes. The presiding judge interrupted to re-mark that M. Maurras would have an opportunity for a political speech when his first sentence comes up for appeal this week. Without pausing for breath, deaf M. Maurras ran on: "Personally, I am for the sacred sanctions of the kitchen knife.* M. Blum is not the master, to send the people to the slaughterhouse." Unwilling to let this remark go unanswered, the judge stood up, leaned across the bench and shouted at M. Maurras: "M. Blum...
...agitated to chase Tyrant Gerardo Machado off their beautiful island (TIME, Aug. 21, 1933). It was nearly two and a half years more before they calmed down sufficiently to hold a regular Presidential election to replace him (TIME, Jan. 20 et ante). Last week, at the end of a breath-taking series of six Provisional Presidents since the flight of Machado, Cuba inaugurated its sixth legally elected President, Miguel Mariano Gómez, who happened to be the son of its second President, General Jose Miguel Gómez.* Small, young (45), determined President Gómez' inauguration...
...made his bed and refuses to lie in it will make some people realize what kind of a man we have as Chief Executive". Unfortunately Mr. Bowker is too optimistic, since Mr. Curley's whole career in politics had been marred by many incidents of such nature. The unpleasant breath of scandal has touched him often, but yet many voters still have failed to realize the character of their Governor, or to do anything about...
...actually a very pale pink. Last week the French Press blazed with the boasts, threats and possible and probable intentions of just one man: Socialist Leader Leon Blum. Aside from France's money troubles (see p. 71), this rich old Jew last week made news at every breath...
...soap heiress (Bette) falls in love with a surly reporter (George Brent). She proposes to him in an up-side-down machine in an amusement park (where Bette is escaping from her normal position), in a manner so abrupt as to be calculated to take George's and your breath. The female proposal is standby number one. The next is a business marriage in which the wedded couple don't mean business. Then there are those awful namby-pamby European counts, who are always such a trial to people like movie heiresses and Jiggs' daughter. Actually, if one ever showed...