Word: breaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...airport, ambulances and fire engines were waiting. Police, firemen, physicians stood by. Thrill-seekers by the thousand held their breath. Down into the glare of the floodlights swooped the ship, hit the earth with a thud, skidded 700 ft. on her belly in a shower of dust and sparks, ground to a stop amid cheers and applause. Damaged propellers would cost Northwest Airlines $50 to repair, but unbroken was the company's proud record of eight years without a single passenger fatality...
...been calling the Botanical Garden, the Biological Institute, and the Arnold Arboretum, trying to find out what new construction was going on at the Herbarium. He pointed out that they all denied the construction of any "large fire-proof building" to preserve classified specimens, and in the same breath he wanted to know where we found the news. He was asked in what paper it appeared, and he said it was the issue of that day. After careful perusal of the paper the Herbarium note was indeed found, hidden away in the "Through The Years" column under the 1909 date...
...thin dyspeptic Londoner. One evening he and his wife attended a neighborhood cinema. As he took his seat, his foul breath caused others to jerk their heads away. He pretended not to notice, put a cigaret between his lips. Just as he brought the lighted match, carefully cupped in his hands, up to the cigaret, he emitted a mighty belch. There was a sudden flash of flame, a rumbling "poom," a smell of singed hair. The cigaret was projected by the explosion over three rows of seats. "In pain and confusion," declared the Lancet, British medical weekly, in reporting...
...Commandments (1923), The King of Kings (1927), The Sign of the Cross (1932). "A religious picture never failed," says the man who was decorated with the Order of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem in 1928. With the Bible to inspire him, he is able to conjure up breath-taking scenes of sadism, warfare and mass debauchery on the part of ancients who did not believe in God. Since Cleopatra has nothing to do with Christianity, it lacks most of the emotional impact DeMille usually gets into his pictures. The best substitute for emotion is spectacle but even here De Mille...
...possibility of a European war still seemed reasonably acute last week. In Bermuda, Dr. William Beebe made a record descent into the ocean. Back from Honolulu. President Roosevelt had barely time to catch his breath before he was immersed in currency problems of grave consequence to all U. S. citizens. Such matters as these received attention from the U. S. Press last week but less attention than something which happened in a small room on the first floor of Manhattan's Hotel Biltmore...