Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...starring Constance Bennett, Cary Grant and Roland Young, and Hollywood sat up and admitted that Hal Roach had widened his horizons in a hurry. Laying his head to Dr. Senise's, he proceeded to widen it still further in a fashion to take even a Schenck's breath away. Few Hollywoodsmen have dared dream of taking in a government for a partner...
...Ignacio the high-born stretched on the stone . . . Now he is finished. The rain enters his mouth. Like mad, his breath rushes from his staved-in chest, and Love, drenched in tears of snow, thaws upon the peaks of the cattle-lands. What do they say? Here lies a stinking silence...
...image" (TIME, Aug. 30. p. 11), which is meaningless, should have been "spit an' image." You doubtless have interpreted what you have heard "spittin' image," and, being punctilious, have supplied the g. You may supply the d for an', too, if you wish. Saliva, like blood, breath, etc., has been regarded, by many peoples of the world, as having supernatural potency, and, of course, intimately associated with one's being. In the folk-mythology of both hemispheres, saliva is often associated with conception. It is reported that among the Gypsies a woman who wishes to have...
Since 1926 the iron fist of Pilsudskrs regime has pressed heavily on Poland. With his last breath the blustering old Dictator two years ago placed his benediction on bush-browed Edward Smigly-Rydz, Inspector General of the Army, gave him to the nation as his successor. Lacking the personal magnetism of the Old Marshal, the landscape-painting Marshal makes a poor Dictator. Using Pilsudski's coffin as his chief stock-in-trade, soft-spoken Smigly-Rydz has appealed in vain for all factions to heed the Old Marshal's wish for a unified Poland...
...find their eyes arrested willy-nilly. Nature to Jean Giono is not a static stage-set but a legion of dynamic actors. His trees not only have their individual smells but their own voices; water is hard or soft like a hostile muscle or like friendly flesh; everything breathes and moves, lives and acts. Sample: "Flights of dead leaves were swept off by the rain. The woods were being stripped bare. Huge water-polished oaks emerged from the downpour with their gigantic black hands clenched in the rain. The muffled breath of the larch forests; the solemn chant...