Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scenes: plump little Marcella Sembrich making her operatic farewell; Enrico Caruso singing his last, as the bearded Jew in Halévy's La Juive; Geraldine Farrar appearing in Die Königskinder with a flock of real, live geese (TIME, Nov. 12); Maria Jeritza giving her first breath-taking Tosca; Marion Talley making her début with mounted police handling the sidewalk crowds outside the dingy opera house...
...first time in four weeks the Varsity will have a chance to catch its breath and try to solve its troubles without the worry of a major opponent. The long stretch of defeats by Holy Cross, Dartmouth, Princeton, and Army has at last ended and there is a supposed breather ahead...
...have to confess that for most things and people I don't care a damn. Writing numbers of books and articles is evidence not of energy but of sedentary habits." He speaks gratefully of "the pleasures, the very real pleasures, of vanity." He regards himself in the same breath as normal: "I am being my own rabbit because I find no other specimen so convenient for dissection. Our own lives are all the practical material we have for the scientific study of living; the rest is hearsay." And supernormal: "The originative intellectual worker is not a normal human being...
Those who looked at the Tiger offense last Saturday were amazed at the elusiveness of Garry LeVan, but these same spectators will hold their breath while the great Jack Buckler tosses random passes on the dead run. They will marvel at the driving power of Joe Stancook, who smashes the line like a second Bronko Nagurski...
Woke you therein, and drew your breath...