Word: breathless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...breathless lay spectators the implication of the Court's questions seemed to he that if there was anything fishy about the "residence" of Mrs. Simpson at Ipswich- which was of only a few days duration- that is, if she was really a resident of London and had just skipped out into the country in an effort to dodge reporters, then that tiny but grim legal point could make the whole divorce fishy and perhaps void...
...Cantabrico was cornered by the White Spanish cruiser Canarias. In an effort to embroil Britain, the Mar Cantabrico flashed frantic radio calls for help, signed them with the letters of one of Britain's Elder Dempster liners. To the rescue of "an unidentified British ship" while Europe waited breathless rushed the destroyers Echo, Escapade, Eclipse, and Encounter. Arriving first, Echo reported that the Mar Cantabrico's, crew had been taken off by the Canarias "so presumably the ship sank." Next day a Red seaman from the Mar Cantabrico popped up in France, said he was rescued...
...been described by the New York Times as "lovely to look at and heaven to hear". However that may be, she has chosen a program which runs the gamut of musical history and comes out rather breathless at the end with a "Wild Song" by Olive Durgan. The recital should give Miss Swarthout ample occasion to prove the abilities so lavishly accorded her by reviewers...
...days of his First Administration, proceeded to reveal in detail one of the major objectives of his Second. The effect of the revelation on politicians and political observers was almost as stunning as if in March 1933 he had laid down a complete blueprint of the New Deal. Knocked breathless, official Washington soon rallied sufficiently to indicate that between the President and his goal lay the hardest fight of his White House career...
Last week NEA, a little breathless after a scrimmage with "another American com-petitor" (not Hearst), signed up to pay the five little Dionnes about $50.000 a year for the exclusive privilege of making their "still" pictures for newspapers, magazines and commercial users,* for by now the Quins have become the world's greatest news-picture story, subscribed to for 1937 by 672 U. S. dailies with an aggregate circulation...