Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...More Stones, and All Stones;" a tourist party of middle-aged Englishwomen - "with ankles lapping down over their shoes and a puglike expression of factitious enthusiasm combined with the determination to be in at the death, whoever or whatever is dying." Prone to laugh the world off in one breath, to succumb helplessly to it in the next, he characteristically concludes his final contribution to Letters from Iceland...
...poet, called "father of English poetry," and to those who know him second only to Shakespeare in genius, left us an epic poem, a psychological novel done in Fourteenth Century terms, about several of the figures of the Trojan contest, a novel which is as full of the lusty breath of Old England as it is of the wind that swept across the Trojan plains...
...Harris), like the best-seller it faithfully follows, takes a squinty look at life among the bindle stiffs, reports out of the side of its mouth in short, hair-raising words. A soundly written, expertly produced play, its close-knit suspense timed to the last held breath, it seemed fated by first-nighters' extraordinary enthusiasm to extraordinary success. Some partisans, reading between its hard-bitten lines a sweeping social preachment, freely prophesied that it would win the Pulitzer Prize. Even those who saw in it only a macabre folk-melodrama applauded the play's outspokenness and sincerity...
...largest crowds ever to fill the basketball floor of the Indoor Athletic Building were there to see boxing matches. Weekly House bouts might be fought between the halves of basketball games, he thinks; at any rate a lively league is surely the thing to bring back the breath of life into "the manly...
...passes were enough to give Winthrop its lone and deciding touchdown in its triumph. First quarterback Flinn threw a pass to fullback Weller. Then Weller tossed one to right end Baumgarten, who raced over the goal from the 20-yard line. Versatile Baumgarten caught his breath, then drop-kicked the point...