Word: breathlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...door banged. Alfred Haine who runs a little inn in the village of Marche-les-Dames looked up just at dinner time to see a man in tweeds, very pale, very breathless, but despite his nervousness, very polite...
...Judge Jarrett, British-bred Philadelphia veterinary, cocked his head, wrinkled his brow and slowly came to his decision, the crowd about the ring was almost breathless with suspense. Dr. Jarrett had previously named two stocky white Sealyhams as best brace in the show, four of their dark-haired Scottish cousins as best team. Would he switch now to the great pointer, prancing proud and free as a stallion, of famed Fancier Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, niece of John Davison Rockefeller Sr.? Or to the magnificent poodle, champion of England, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland and France, entered by Mrs. Sherman Hoyt of Manhattan...
...condition. Performance showed their wisdom. Capt. Ernst Hallberg led off on Aida. a magnificent brown mare from the stables of Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf. No faults. Then Lieut. Herbert Sachs on the grey gelding Orient. No faults. Finally Count Gustaf Fredrik von Rosen on brown Kornett. In a breathless minute he, too. made a perfect circuit. No team could beat the Swedes. The Canadians, Czechs and Irish disqualified themselves from chances of a tie, even proud Gallowglass refusing a jump. It was up to the U. S. Lieut. E. F. Thomson on Tanbark, and Major John Tupper Cole on Avocat...
...call him a professional Hard Guy, hint that at bottom he is an adolescent sentimentalist. His followers crane their necks up at him as if he were a Paul Bunyan of literature, striding from strength to strength. Plain readers read him because he sometimes writes stories that hold them breathless. All three will find what they are looking for in Hemingway's latest book. Nobody now could mistake a Hemingway story for anything else. His language may appear hard-boiled but it is really a carefully artificial dialect. His subjects, as carefully chosen as his style, are almost always...
...York Herald Tribune, Pundit Walter Lippmann wrote an editorial-of-the-week called "The Pace of Things." "In our domestic affairs,'' said he, "we have indulged heavily in calendar-worship. In Washington, for example, the administration of the NRA has been beset by a kind of breathless anxiety that certain definite results had to be achieved on a particular day. There had to be x million men at work by Labor Day. There had to be x million more by the New Year. . . . Even the Dictatorships, where everything is done so lickety-split. have allowed themselves...