Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that he was going to Washington in behalf of a lost cause. Nothing could divert the Administration from its determination to put the Stock Exchange into a Federal straitjacket. All President Whitney could hope for in the political battle ahead was to keep that strait-jacket from squeezing the breath of life entirely out of the stock trading business...
...Chicago last summer they had resolved that in their "deliberate judgment" deposit in surance involved dangers both "genuine and serious." And ever since Jan. 1 when limited Federal deposit insurance became effective for $15,345,832,955 in 54,000,000 accounts, the bankers have been holding their breath waiting for the first crash. Up to this week not one of the 13,431 insured banks throughout the land had closed its doors...
...reason for this turmoil is, of course, the unsavory scandal created by the revelation that members of the government were connected with the Stavisky affair. No one is directly implicated, but the mere breath of rumor has been enough to inflame French public opinion to a fever pitch; the incompetence and mismanagement of which the government has been guilty have shocked and disgusted the public. In addition to this there is ample reason for assuming that the "suicide" of M. Stavisky was arranged by the police as the most efficient means of keeping that unfortunate financier from talking indiscreetly...
...inside his head, with the result that Author Winkler's journalese is indistinguishable from the guarded patois written in Hearstpapers all over the U. S. In The First Billion he writes of Stanford White's "mortal death," burlesques Stillman, himself and the English language in the same breath: "Something about the repose, the quiet self-mastery of cows subdued the demon in his own breast. He passed hours photographing his placid animals...
...disagreeable habit.'' The Piccoli (produced by Vittorio Podrecca). In a window on a miniature stage a four-foot wooden man dressed in the black velvet costume of Don Juan sings a glib, impatient seduction at a peasant girl. He shakes with emotion and lack of breath, turns from girl to audience on the high notes, putting out his hands, palms up, for applause. He is more convincing and formidable than any living operatic Don Juan. Every motion he makes is a shrewd and funny parody of the way human beings move. His chief difference from...