Word: breaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trained upon the City Hall opposite. Mayor Walmsley swore in 500 new police, bought a dozen submachine guns, threatened to annihilate the guardsmen if they interfered with city government. All these martial preparations landed New Orleans on the front page of the nation's Press. The country held its breath in excitement for the outbreak of local war, with St. Charles Street running blood and the dead piled high in LaFayette Square...
...entry into Chicago. In 1919 they were both made partners in Holabird & Roche and young John Root had caught up with old John Holabird. Although their careers have been almost identical, the two Johns are not alike. To Mr. Root, now 47, generally goes credit for brilliant designs and breath-taking solutions; to Mr. Holabird, praise for mastering minutiae, overcoming practical obstacles. More social than his partner, chunky bespectacled Mr. Root enjoys peering at Lake Michigan from the Saddle & Cycle Club, going to parties. He was promoter and part-owner last year of the Century of Progress' most popular...
...were married, went to live on the ancestral farm Willoughby had inherited. For a few years they were happy; then Willoughby's blood began to tell. He grew more and more like his old uncle, sank deeper and deeper into the soil, while his wife stifled for a breath of the civilization she was used to. Eventually they agreed to separate; she went back to town and left Willoughby to his Spartan acres and his Spartan thoughts...
English Comedienne Gertrude Lawrence swung a bottle of champagne against her new 30-ft. yacht, gift of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. The bottle bounced back. Harder she swung and still harder, but without results. While spectators tittered, she picked up a hatchet and smashed the bottle. Then, out of breath, she christened the boat Grateful, took Donor Fairbanks and friends on a week-end cruise out of Southampton...
Because France has won the last four races, one of her sons is confidently expected to repeat this year. Chief French hopes are Georges Speicher, last year's winner who has enough spare breath during the race for a steady stream of quips and japes; Roger Lapébie. bashful young Bordelais who won seven major events in 1933; Antonin Magne, laconic Auvergnat farmer who is called "The eternal runner-up''; Charles Pélissier, cameo-profiled idol of schoolboys. Dashing, excitable captain of this year's French team, Pelissier has won important races...