Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...politicos lately passed a bill repealing their harshest prohibition. Last fortnight Governor Horace Mann Towner vetoed the act and repeated that cockfighting is "a barbarous and cruel sport." But people said the law would not matter one way or the other. The jibaro pays no attention, saving his breath for the secret pit, the dashing fury of his little bird, the hot argument or epic narrative afterward...
...habit of quiet, unobtrusive, self-regulated conduct, not accepted from others or influenced by the vulgar breath...
While all the publicity world bates its breath, a Diamond Queen and a Girl Lindbergh count one for the money, two for the show preparatory to passenger rides across the seas. Air rivalry, a duel of the clouds, is the motif seized upon by the fun--loving tabloids...
...accuse the Raleigh witnesses of lying. He did not grow noisy about it like Senator Heflin. But he was convinced that North Carolina was convinced that the Brown Derby was corruptive. Moreover, he said, Smith would be defeated in North Carolina "four or five to one." He paused for breath and then reiterated, that Candidate Smith's "derelictions" would be exposed, by the Republicans...
...Vedic hymn; he carried a flaming torch which, with a graceful stoop, he applied to a pile of carefully prepared faggots. The faggots went up in a cloud of smoke and flame; Krish-namurti's disciples, of whom a thousand sat upon the slope of the hill, drew a breath of wonder-and listened while their leader spoke to them in a soft voice...