Word: fainting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this wild report seems to be only a flimsy excuse and perhaps the last faint touches of a sake hangover. The disconcerting presence of geisha girls seems to find a good deal of favor when one asks the why and wherefore. After all, Americans are not too numerous in Japan and the prospect of spending a pleasant few hours with a bunch of Harvard ball-players must have made many a comely Japanese maiden forget her afternoon prayers...
...full between two trains, a moment of silence in the traffic, and a wayfarer cocked an incredulous ear to catch the faint strains of Gregorian chant coming from under the bridge...
...singular,* Professor Greet said that the expression is usually collective, but sometimes resembles the French vous, as when a Negro servitor might say to a single person, with no sense of intimacy: "Kin ah call a cab fo' y'awl?" Southern-born, Professor Greet speaks with a faint accent, by no means resembles an "elocution" teacher, says: "We want to make Americans speak like Americans, not like a cross between Walter Hampden and an Englishman...
...seem incredible and false. What principally puzzles him is why so many critics have called his stories "competent." Says he: "There is evidently something that a number of people do not like in my stories and it is this they try to express when they damn them with the faint praise of competence. I have a notion that it is the definiteness of their form. . . . My prepossessions in the arts are on the side of law and order. I like a story that fits. ... I am not unaware of the disadvantages of this method. It gives a tightness of effect...
Suddenly the woman turned off the gas lights. The darkness was complete except for the faint luminescence of something in a tube which she held in her hand. Few days later Marie Sklodowska Curie and her husband Pierre announced they had discovered a radioactive element which they called radium...