Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Medill McCormick (Republican national committeewoman from Illinois, daughter of the late Senator Mark A. Hanna, widow of the U. S. Senator from Illinois) addressed Westchester County women in the Hotel Commodore, Manhattan, for 15 minutes. Then she said: "I am sorry but I am going to faint," toppled into the arms of a politician beside her, was carried from the room. Mrs. McCormick soon recovered...
...Lampoon, intrepid and impotent burbler of the invading nine, was seen during the greater part of yesterday afternoon twining himself into grotesque and inhuman knots on the front steps of the Lampoon building, accompanied by the faint cheers of the teeming masses indoors who were gradually preparing themselves for the fray...
...waves and the deep blue of the sky. Huge battleships, their flags flying, moved along like imperturbable swimming pyramids; slim grey destroyers cut through the water as precisely as a butcher's whirling knife slices cheese; ungainly plane and submarine tenders waddled past. The only sounds were the faint swish of the waves, the wasp-like drone of seaplanes soaring overhead...
...this encyclopedic work, whereof the wit is second only to the scholarly wealth, is Editor of House and Garden, the sedentary sound of which title he dispels forever with a romantic introductory prose-poem: a series of fadeouts from the motor-clogged highways of today to the first faint trails through the trader's forest...
...doctors said that he was suffering from Landry's paralysis, which generally kills the victim in two to 14 days. Still there was faint hope for their Albert. In 1898, at Minneapolis, a Swedish house servant had lived for 41 days under artificial respiration. And at New Haven, a year ago, one Mrs. Mary Baker, with lungs, paralyzed for 75 hours, had recovered...