Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like the sounds of a diver talking through a sea of molasses. How stupid all this was! Just last night, or was it last night? he had been dancing with the most beautiful women in all the world. Their faces still floated around him, and he could remember the faint scent of sachet. A Junior Usher can muscle in on almost everything. They had spoken to him like dream women wrapping him in an aura of honeyed words. He could feel the pulse of the orchestra and see the colored revolving spot ferret out the sparkle in some darling...
...gave rifles to 200 reporters and let them join in the hunt. A few lesser bandits were caught, but not Spada. Reporters, Fournier, armored cars and bloodhounds went home. A few of the gendarmes stayed, plodding patiently over the mountains, baying now & then on Spada's faint trail. But Spada was nowhere...
...have been twice to Florida, & three times to Europe. I have been to two boarding-schools, & gained a great many friends in diffirent ways. ... I have learned how to faint, & have inheirited a fortune. Have been through a long illness & had a terrible sorrow! And I might have been married if I had choosen . . . I have never sworn eternal friendship to anyone, nor written poetry since I was eleven years old." On her 17th birthday (Dec. 28, 1870), Julia Newberry thus cast up her accounts. This two-year diary of a last-century Chicago socialite is less kittenish and platitudinous...
...London Paris & New York put together," ring a little false, her boredom is a little showy; but she had another cause for ennui: ill health. Undergoing the rigors of a Manhattan dress-fitting one day she suddenly keeled over. Afterwards she admitted to her diary: "I always wanted to faint once, just to know how it felt; & it is very nasty; however heroines always faint, but authors never say it is because they are billious." This mysterious "billiousness" took her out of a fashionable Manhattan finishing school, sent her to European watering-places and seaside resorts (always fashionable places, however...
...reverence by his people as this frail little man. None, not even excepting Buddha, has gained such a tremendous following in that land. His bitterest political opponents ungrudgingly pay homage to his high ethi- cal and spiritual qualities. "Ghandism a striking corpso"--strange indeed! Those who have even a Faint idea of what Indian public life was like before Ghandi appeared on the scene would rapidly see the shallowness of this epithet. Then the masses accepted their wretched fate in fatalistic apathy. Ghandi has infused into this "corpse" a new life, a now hope. It no longer "stinks...