Word: gasp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called new reviews, having no startling scenery, calculated to make the audience gasp. In fact there is no scenery at all, the coloured orchestra and some black drapes forming the entire backdrop which does not change throughout. The show depends entirely upon a group of half a dozen or more principals, of whom Ethel Waters is the leading one. There is no dancing chorus but Cecil Mack's negro choir makes up for the lack of this by rendering several typical negro-spirituals...
...occurrences could exert less effect on the Press of the land than the passing last week of the Anaconda (Mont.) Standard. As an important State daily it had been anesthetized three years ago, cut to a strictly local circulation of 2,000. Last week witnessed merely its last official gasp: the paper was taken over as a four-page section of its thriving stepchild, the Butte Montana Standard...
...leaving Paris, cheered wildly at the station by a French crowd in which prominent Frenchmen were conspicuous by their absence, M. Briand had accepted a large bouquet of red roses from a young woman, apparently of the working class. Her face was tearstained. Overcome by emotion she managed to gasp, "I-I love you, Monsieur le President!" For a moment the old, defeated man standing at the door of his Pullman did not reply. Then accepting the roses with a low bow, he said: "I would rather hear those words from you, Madame, than from the best qualified member...
...Dole? Such pot shots at the enemy pass more or less unnoticed in Parliament, but Mr. Snowden made his own party sit up and gasp when he appeared to foreshadow a cut in the unemployment dole...
...bribe the officers, Latore got a split of $5 or $10. If she would not pay, at least the police got credit for an arrest, plus rake-off from bondsmen and lawyers to whom they recommended the case. Sample of the many tales with which Witness Latore made Manhattan gasp: "I went back to the hotel and [Plain-clothesman John J.] Stiglin gave me something like $40 or $50 . . . because this girl was supposed to be high-priced. ... It was very hot that day and we went into this room, this girl and I, after paying for the room...