Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ethiopia, delivered from the top of a cannon at Salerno to troops as they were about to embark. On the way to Salerno the flying Dictator who piloted his own plane passed through an electric storm. Lightning charges collected on the wireless antennae, shocked the radio operator into a faint, but the big trimotored ship roared safely on. Amateur correspondents reported that Benito Mussolini said...
...Glass Bill. Said the Gentleman from Virginia: "It's a damn sight better bill than the original." Said Banking & Currency Chairman Fletcher who generally disagrees with Senator Glass: "It's a fairly good compromise and better than I expected." Even Governor Eccles managed to muster something more than faint praise for the new draft. Walter Lippmann was inspired to write...
After a full hour of this, Premier Flandin stepped from the rostrum, walked slowly from the Chamber, slumped in a faint in the corridor outside. He was hustled home, put to bed. Not for many hours did he learn that his entire speech had been in vain. Paunchy little Edouard Herriot, leader of the Radical Socialists, had leaped in to plead the government's case until long past midnight. It did not change a vote. The Flandin Cabinet was voted...
Nevertheless, it was with only a faint smile that businessmen read a melodramatic pronouncement by Business Pundit B. C. Forbes in his Hearst column last week...
...personal feeling, the censorship in the vicinity of Boston is to me detestable, narrow-minded and undoubtedly something that should have gone out with the stove-pipe hat and knee-britches. Furthermore, even were the articles in the Lampoon to be taken at face-value, I should find them faint-hearted, wishy-washy, just barely pornographic. As they were, I nearly died laughing. Ask any Harvard-man what he thinks of the last Lampoon, and if they are the same men I've asked, you will find them whole-heartedly in its praise. After all, they were eager to read...