Word: breathlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's Margaret, the world's most eligible princess, was giving her suitors-and the breathless watchers of royal romance-a breathless time. Just when London was momentarily expecting an announcement of her engagement to Walter Francis John ("Johnny") Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Earl of Dalkeith and heir to the Duke of Buccleuch, Margaret began to be squired about by young-man-about-town William ("Billy") Wallace, son of the late Captain Euan Wallace, M.P. and Minister of Transport in Neville Chamberlain's government...
Theodore Shadrick, a gaunt, silent man with a face seamed by 37 years in the coal mines, was eating breakfast with his wife when he heard the sound of running feet. A neighbor burst through the doorway of the Shadricks' mountain shack with a breathless shout...
...there was "an indication of meditation, of a naive drunkenness." But his feverish search for ever-increasing simplicity could also lead into a blind alley. Presumably, commented Opera, "Tal-Coat has reached the end of his evolution because unless he is prepared to exhibit blank canvases to his breathless public, what else...
...personal life was breathless and obsessive. He was continually in & out of love, twice halfheartedly attempted suicide to prove his devotion. His punishment for one clumsy attempt at sea, Hector told a friend, was "to swallow a lot of salt water and be yanked out like a fish . . ." He was married twice, both times unhappily; his only son Louis became a sailor, died two years before his famous father...
Proust on the Subway. The Voice listener is apt to hear a great many wide-eyed, breathless stories about New York. Arab listeners were recently offered (Allah only knows why) a broadcast on Central Park which furnished the following startling information: "If you drive in through one of the streets that cross the park from west to east, or vice versa, you will probably go down a number of circular roads, and as the roads wind, your car will follow, and in half an hour or so you are back at the same point from which you started...