Word: breathed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with Judge Lescouvé, Judge Prince said to Max Buteau: 'Between Pressard and me, there is hatred to the death.' How is it possible not to place this remark in juxtaposition with Judge Lescouvé's declaration before the Parliamentary commission." Never until Stavisky was a breath of scandal attached to the long, unexciting career of Georges Pressard as a criminal lawyer and provincial judge. Called before the investigating commission last week he maintained stoutly that he never knew Stavisky or ever performed any favors for him. "On the death of Judge Prince I have no opinions...
...edition. Hearst's International News had been gloriously hoaxed, and the U. S. Press with it. But in borrowing the Illustrirte Zeitung's feature, the International News editors missed two ingenious points: 1) The pilot did not simply blow the rotors around by sheer lung-power. He breathed normally into the box, in which a marvelous chemical contrivance converted the carbon dioxide of his breath into fuel to run a small motor which turned the rotors! (As everyone should know, carbon dioxide is anything but combustible.) 2) The pilot's name, Koycher (not Kocher), was a freak...
American the ballet was in theme rather than execution. The theme was the construction of the two railroads, the Union and the Central Pacific, which Leland Stanford's ill-aimed blow symbolically joined together. But both music and choreography-breath and flesh of any ballet-were the work of Russians: the music of Nicholas Nabokov, 31-year-old composer of Alsace and Paris; the choreography of Leonide Massine, 36-year-old master of the present Russian ballet. Only the libretto by Archibald MacLeish, the stage sets by Albert Johnson (The Band Wagon, As Thousands Cheer) and the costumes...
...hand, yet feeling that something ought to be done about it, he began loading the chambers with a few odd cartridges he oddly discovered in his vest pocket. It was at this point that he felt a hand on his shoulder and a policeman's breath on the back of his neck...
...alumni exercises being a strictly intimate Harvard family affair, any alumnus should be welcomed back. The very fact that it happened to be a university alumni gathering made it even more certain that one could entertain people of varying beliefs, for freedom of thought and speech is the breath of life of a real university. I regret that Hanfstaengel finds he cannot return and I think it unfortunate that some people have interjected political issues into an intimate family gathering. It emphasizes acutely how strong is the power of sentiment...