Word: breathed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sinclair as Democratic candidate for Governor had become such a nuisance that the President had to repudiate him. In Manhattan a million-share day on the stock exchange was front-page news and Henry Ford's announcement that he would build 1,000,000 cars was a refreshing breath of optimism. In Washington the Railroad Retirement Act went out as unconstitutional. In Miami Legionaries shouted for immediate cash payment of the Bonus. In Denver and Albany there were hunger marchers. Donald Richberg had just been named co-ordinator-in-general to set the cosmic alphabet in order. From coast...
Notre Dame took the ball again on its own 20-yd. line. Four passes, the last from Pilney to Layden, brought a touchdown. With a minute and a half to play, the crowd held its breath while Fromhart dropped back to try for the extra point that might tie the score. He failed...
...excellent. The lines are good and the designing by Waugh, taking classical mythology as a subject, are well executed. His Zodiac Bowl is probably the most famous and has drawn the highest praise from all over the world. An unengraved piece, a huge brandy sniffing goblet, takes your breath away by its sweep and simplicity and the transparency of the glass...
...Juliet is vividly alive, glamourously beautiful, never anything more pretentious than a fourteen year old girl of Renaissance Verona. She reads her lines with a freshness and depth of understanding which invest the whole play with a breath-taking beauty. To one of America's most talented actresses, hail...
...breath the League was thus resurrected, and in the next Britannia, in consequence, was to dominate the Mediterranean against all comers. In the cheers of the House of Commons for this rebirth of the League of Nations & British Might as twins, millions of the King's subjects joined sincerely and without hypocrisy because honest Stanley Baldwin, while asking a cool billion for weapons, also told them on the radio last week: "I think you know me well enough now to know I am no militarist, and you can safely trust...