Word: gasp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tears started from M. Bratiano's eyes as he made a supreme effort and managed to gasp: "Yes, Your Majesty. How good and gracious it is of you to come here at such an hour...
Court. In the dim court of Assizes, in Paris, during the past fortnight, more than 400 spectators saw the beginning and the end of one of the most gruesome, bloodcurdling, impassioned trials ever to be held in that vaulted hall of justice. Quivering flappers sat to gasp with astonishment beside white & black bearded Jews who exchanged shocked glances with flat-faced Slavic Ukrainians under the noses of red & black-robed judges. Within and without the courtroom was a triple guard of gendarmes to prevent disorder...
...Brooks House Association has steadily mounted with the Student Association dipping downward. Such was the tendency until June, 1926, (an eventful date!) when the end of the sec-saw bearing the frail Students Association bumped the ground and our rival toppled off the plank altogether, bequeathing in its last gasp its residuaries (all bad bargains) to our committee. This year, then, we found on our hands a spacious Students Room to be maintained and bountifully stocked with chess men and checkers, The American Mercury and perhaps some other magazines of no concern...
...lust and cowardice, drive him into the ministry. The first page finds him drunk in a saloon near his alma mater, Terwillinger College. Needing a fight, he lurches into a soap-box crowd that a pimpled Y. M. C. A. pipsqueak is converting, and flattens the hecklers. The Baptists gasp. "HellCat" Gantry, the black-maned campus bully with his boasted amours and loud contempt, get religion? The pipsqueak fawns and prays. A bully bigger than Gantry, "Old Jud" Roberts, praying (and weeping) fullback from Chicago, holds a chest-pound-ing, fistshaking, handshaking, "manly challenge" revival. "HellCat" confesses publicly. The half...
...attacked by a herd of infuriated walruses. Two arrows had been shot into the leading bull by a member of the crew who hunted with Indian weapons. At the last moment Bartlett leaped to the bow and plunged and Eskino lance into the beast. The bull gave a great gasp and rolled over. The rest of the herd seemed to lost heart. With vengeful snorts they turned about and retreated...