Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...creditor nations under the Experts' Plan should not press for German payments quicker than that trade policy permits. Further, he warned that creditor nations, including the U. S., might have to curtail production if the Plan is to succeed. The U. S. delegation gasped. The French grew faint. Belgians were dazed. The entire conference was dejected, dismayed. Germans once again jubilated. Perhaps, after all, they would not have to pay any reparation...
...That faint trumpeting that dies away Like the lowing of monstrous star-cattle Marks the passing of the mastodon...
...Want My Man. Doris Kenyon is one of the few picture actresses of whom too faint is the chanted praise. They are all pretty. Miss Kenyon acts; possibly that is why she goes unrecognized in Hollywood. In this one, she acts a nurse who marries a blind soldier. His eyes open seven years later and a former sweetheart complicates conditions. Milton Sills is the soldier...
...century ago in the Magenta, as the CRIMSON was called in its infant years, describing the Lexington and Concord centennial celebration of April 19, 1875. Only a Harvard cheer, "given by a party of undergraduates with great effect considering," was able to evoke from President Grant even "a faint motion of the risible muscles" on that historic occasion. If, as rumor has it, President Coolidge visits Cambridge next June, there will be ample opportunity to discover whether "a regular cheer for the President" will have the same effect...
...like and dignified silence with great effect. We believe that he was not observed to smile during the whole course of the day, except, indeed, when a Harvard cheer saluted him, given by a party of undergraduates with great effect considering. He then gracefully removed his plug, and a faint motion of the risible muscles was evident. His composure seems the more remarkable when we consider the ominous incident of his having tumbled through the platform at Concord...