Word: breaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...visiting statesmen would issue joint White House communiques about their talks. Like most communiques, these were more concealing than revealing. They dealt almost wholly in generalities. One told how President Roosevelt and Mr. MacDonald had laid the basis of a "clearer understanding" on War Debts but, in the next breath, denied that "any plan or settlement is under way." The President and Mr. Bennett had "a very helpful exchange of views." The President and M. Herriot came to "as complete an understanding as possible between our two countries in regard to our common problems" but left "definite agreements...
Fifty years ago when Gaishi Nagaoka was a young officer at the Military Staff College in Tokyo what he had on his upper lip was just a mustache, not to be mentioned in the same breath with the vast and magnificent brush of His Majesty Umberto I, King of Italy. Time passed. Umberto died. Gaishi Nagaoka became a Major, then a Colonel, then a General and his mustache grew & grew. By the time he retired from active service in 1915 to become the smiling white-winged father of Japanese aviation it was no longer a mustache but a religion...
Hearst v. Pulitzer. From his devoted mother, four years after his father's death in 1891, Hearst got a $7,500,000 advance on his fabulous patrimony. For $180,000 he bought the doddering Journal and stalked quietly into New York to knock the breath out of imperious, blind Joseph Pulitzer. Few knew he was there until. to add to the cream of his imported San Francisco staff, he began buying up Pulitzer's best brains-including Arthur Brisbane-and in addition made Pulitzer accept 1? instead of 2? for his paper. Richard Harding Davis and a dozen...
Still swings the murderer, bent of knees In a slightly strained repose, Nor feels the faint hand of the breeze: He now with Solomon all things knows: That, lastly, breath is to a man But to want and fret a span...
...passing grade is surprisingly small, and the instructors have a happy habit of easing up on the final examination. Those who are not far enough advanced to take French 2, and lack the initiative to learn French by reading it, have no alternative but to take a deep breath, plunge in, and hope to rise at the end from a wearisome swim in murky waters...