Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...everything in the world, has concocted an oldtime almanack distinctly in harmony with the traditional mood of the season. To his aid have rushed a host of accomplished specialists with important contributions. Marc Connelly, playwright & seer, provides the general forecast for the approaching year; Critic Nathan suggests a breath-taking change in post-Volstead nomenclature; Banker Streeter* supplies a startling opinion of what 1928 will do for Big Business; Florenz Ziegfeld dissertates on his favorite topic; poems flow from many a pen of unquestioned talent; and, to choose from a multitude of other writings what may be most significant, famed...
...Bratiano* swayed and seemed nigh to fainting. She was embraced and steadied by the Dowager Queen Marie, who, turning toward the coffin as it was lowered into the earth, apostrophized thus: "Great and good friend of my youth and of my riper years! As long as there is still breath in me, for all that I am worth I shall try with God's help to carry on and uphold King Ferdinand's and your great work. Amen...
...torch from Cleveland blazed at the national convention of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America in Manhattan last week. The rabbis there encouraged the flame with the breath of their warm agreement. No torch of Orthodox Judaism ought ever...
...intimates. He is somewhat downright in his opinions and there is no nonsense about either them or him. In short, he is a typical product of Victorianism: ultraconservative, even to attending church regularly and dissecting the sermon at a heavy mid-day dinner, decorously genial, upright-no breath of scandal has ever touched his life-and painstakingly methodical...
...jail a Mrs. Anna Kessler rushed at cowering Mr. Koch. "You rat," she yelled, "you ought to be hanged! I'll kill you! Where is my ring? It cost $600! Tell me where it is, you villain!" Mr. Koch's plump cheeks puffed; his breath popped; he burst into tears. Police shouldered the angry matrons away and helped the rascal to a cell...