Word: breathlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Smuggled out of Russia and scanned with breathless interest by Reds abroad last week was a manifesto against Dictator Josef Stalin which Reds in Russia have been slipping fearfully from palm to palm...
Scowling hugely, New York City's Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Charles Norris recently stormed into the "House of Breathless Men," as morgue attendants euphemistically call their nose-stinging structure. On Dr. Norris' mind was an order from Mayor Joseph Vincent ("Holy Joe") McKee-who, to spare taxes and borrow money from bankers, is trying to cut city operating costs-to reduce his department budget by 20%. Before Dr. Norris' eyes was the barren poverty of his morgue office-a small room, cheap furniture, a microscope, reagent bottles. The floor is bare. But in an adjacent laboratory...
Like a prestidigitator, Mr. Bennett produced a blue bag from his coat tails. Out of the bag came a big silver plate. Mr. Bennett handed it to Mr. Baldwin. Mr. Baldwin took out a red silk hankerchief. polished the plate carefully, slowly. A boy came in breathless with another blue bag containing another big silver plate. This plate Mr. Baldwin presented to Mr. Bennett. Mr. Baldwin then made a speech praising the weather. Mr. Havenga made a speech pointing out that nobody was under the illusion that he was going home with everything he wanted. Mr. Chatterjee made a speech...
From College Humor's offices in Chicago's North La Salle street last week issued three breathless announcements...
...getting a fat body and a fat head, who avows himself a small eater yet is clogged with his own metabolic products; the man becoming set about the neck and waist, who turns his body slowly rather than his head and eyes quickly, or who is bluish and breathless, losing his rib movements and wants to 'stay put.' Then the various gastrointestinal victims who need to be taught how to eat. how to digest, and to regulate their bowels, and perhaps to be cured of their 'conscious abdomens.' Then again the patient in the early diabetic stage where not only...