Word: breathless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hardly had France drawn its easy breath (see above) than it was knocked breathless by the assassination of her Foreign Minister...
...Marseilles last week to slap their employers' respective opinions on the blank walls of the city. At the end of a street they met. Brushes went flying. Paste pots were spilled. Damp bundles of posters littered the ground. Pistols cracked in the half-light. By the time the breathless police arrived two men lay dead on the sidewalk, four others were seriously wounded...
When a little girl gave chase to the royal limousine, panting after it with a fistful of flowers. Prince George told the chauffeur to pull up and the child with a breathless curtsy plumped her posies into Princess Marina's lap. At Prince George's apartments in St. James's Palace, the Princess and her parents spent an hour, then left with him for Balmoral Castle. As yet Marina had no engagement ring, since George had found nothing suitable in the Balkans where he wooed her (TIME. Sept. 10). Last week His Royal Highness ordered in London a superb Kashmir...
...Harold Lloyd) is the first picture manufactured by its star since 1932. Unlike its predecessors, it contains no nerve-wracking escapes from railroad trains, no breathless danglings from skyscraper ledges. It is "straight" comedy about the son of a Chinese missionary and the difficulties he encounters when he returns to his hometown to find himself a wife...
...white Ballhaus, the historic Chancellery of Prince Metternich in which Napoleon's Europe was carved up by the Congress of 1815. Routine matters were dealt with and Minister of Education Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg had slipped off with one or two other Ministers to an early lunch. Suddenly a breathless secretary rushed in with a slip of paper which he handed to the little Chancellor and strapping Major Emil Fey, Commissar for Emergency Measures for Defense of the State. "Action against the Government is being prepared," read the paper. Almost before this warning could sink in five truckloads...