Word: gasp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...almost perfectly. Clare Eames, as the nurse, is tremendously moving, though once or twice a little over-hating. Casha Pringle, as the wife, is a small-faced, tense English girl, who, when she removed her opera wrap in the first act, revealed a figure which caused the audience to gasp with approval. Mary Jerrold, as the mother, is wise and charming...
...shops buckled and burst, streets were strewn with clothing store dummies, some in fetching negligee. Citizens and policemen clung to lamp posts, or flung themselves flat and clung to gutters. Finally even the elite U. S. patrons of smart hotels along the Thames Embankment were made to choke and gasp with streaming eyes, as smoke and soot blew down the chimneys of their bedrooms' open hearths...
...scene just described was recently cartooned for Punch, British weekly, to visualize the recent successes of Signor Mussolini in stamping out large numbers of the secret bandit gangs or "Mafia" in Sicily (TIME, Oct. 24, Jan. 23). Punch put into the mouth of its nearly strangled brigand a gasp: "If you destroy our secret societies you kill romance." To this the burly-but-impeccable victor, Signor Mussolini, replies: "Fascismo is all the romance Italy needs!" Last week the real Signor Mussolini lived up to his cartooned likeness by ordering that suppression of the criminal class in Sardinia shall at once...
...bill is now before the State legislature to put an end to the arbitrary suppression of books by police sergeants; who have been called up it is said, by the Watch and Ward and asked to read and gasp "at page 256, the third paragraph, if they want to see real smut...
...Impossible, Monsieur" has been the sorrowful response of countless French tobacconists when stranded U. S. men have managed to gasp out: "Avez-vous Chesterfields?" or "Donnez-moi des Luckies...