Word: breathlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After working on newspapers in St. Louis, Chicago, and Montreal, John B. Kennedy became an associate editor of Collier's magazine. He specialized in writing breezy interviews with stage and screen celebrities. Kennedy was a man of the world and he knew bow to keep out too much breathless adoration of the great...
Ever since 1927 various British boardinghouse-keepers have fed and housed Stuart and her elderly companion, Miss B. M. N. Morgan. "Three kings were her godfathers," Miss Morgan has explained to boardinghouse-keeper after breathless boardinghouse-keeper. "She is a Princess of the House of Bourbon. The estate will soon be settled up and she will...
...doors for a chance to hear it. For fear of rioting, gates of the Palace of Fine Arts were at first locked. Angry crowds threatened to tear them down. Conferences ensued between police, the Ministry of Education and the principals. The gates were opened, and in swept a breathless and perspiring crowd to hear the two duelists fight over "What Constitutes Revolutionary...
Being new at the author business I don't know just what to say. I'm breathless-it is something beyond my fondest hope...
...once discernible in the columns of the Digest. Modified was the policy of surveying public opinion through newspaper editorials. Under Editor Draper the Digest published signed contributions on current affairs, staff-written articles based on newspaper news. Here & there Editor Draper whipped up leads to sound like breathless Floyd Gibbons: "This is Chapter 1-in epitome -of the Roosevelt regime. And what a chapter! What a regime!" Beyond these mutations, however, Traditionalist Draper bogged down in Tradition for fair. Circulation, which once had risen close to 1,500,000, dwindled steadily,* to the great dismay of Publisher Robert Joseph Cuddihy...