Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...powerless to gratify." Yet she waited out the long days of his illness, lonely in her cold virginity, never regarding the torment of delirious notes in which he accused her of unfaithfulness. She kept faith to the dying poet long after he coughed out his last feeble breath, holding her oval white carnelian in his hand. She had understood his request that her last letter be laid in his coffin. He died. "All that grieves me now," she wrote pathetically to Fanny Keats, "is that I was not with him, and so near...
...would not be another bituminous coal strike at least until April 1, 1934-Room 800 B was pack-jammed with hard-boiled operators who for years had balked unionization of their properties, and with tough-fisted veterans who had fought and bled for their union. Together they bated their breath as Mine Leader Lewis pulled the contract to him, squiggled his name. A moment later Operator Morrow signed. Signatures of other operators and U. M. W. officials completed the deal which unionized 95% of the soft coal industry, gave NRA its first detailed wage agreement based on a code. Messrs...
...gulf of a century he has been transplanted from Tennessee to typemetal. And for the first time he thrives again, bawling orders to John Coffee, fidus Achates; shaking his flat under the brandy noses of a country jury; writing Rachel "Kiss my two sons," and in the next breath ordering the execution of Ambrister...
...twice during the year, there will come a moment, as Professor Lake reads from the Bible, when the scratching of pens and pencils will cease, students will straighten to complete attention, every whisper will fade to nothingness, and, for a few long seconds, the class will hold its breath, while Professor Lake passes the climax of his passage. Such tension can only last for a moment, but the effect of it lasts years. To have been present on one of those occasions is worth two ordinary half courses, and whether or not one may agree with Professor Lake's views...
There was a breath of threat when he said: "It is easy to say 'no,' and if that is the program and we want the Government to do our banking, what is to become of our high-priced bank talent? The office boy can say 'no' and the note teller can collect the notes if they are good...