Word: gasp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Breathless after his phenomenal performance, DePinto could only gasp, "I knew I could do it for Fair Harvard...
...afternoon last week three Utility Commission engineers and a lawyer, John C. Kelley, rapped at the door of the Allentown plant. Mr. Kelley presented the superintendent, a Pennsylvania Dutchman named Fenstermacher, with a formal notice from Mr. Beamish. Superintendent Fenstermacher gave a guttural gasp. The notice read: "I assume that a theoretical breakdown of considerable magnitude has taken place. ..." With Allentown plunged into theoretical darkness, demand was made that the plant produce power immediately. There were only five men in the plant and the nearest skilled help was 200 miles away in Williamsport. Superintendent Fenstermacher sent a frantic call...
...some cases tripped them into falling, whereupon there was uproarious laughter from the Japanese," grimly cabled New York Timesman Hallett Abend. Leading the parade came Japanese officers riding in motor cars or on horses so shockingly thin and ill-cared for as to make many a spectator gasp. Well-fed, clean-uniformed Japanese infantry came next, the middle-aged troops of the Son of Heaven who are invading China while his better, hardier and younger soldiers guard Manchukuo against Soviet Russia. After the infantry came machine guns, then mountain guns dismantled and packed on skinny horses, finally rumbling heavy artillery...
...from South Bend, Ind., the Wiener Sängerknaben (Singing Boys of Vienna) were erect and lively as they marched into their hotel. There they stripped to the waist, scrubbed their faces, brushed their teeth, composed themselves for a short nap. That night they made the little college town gasp at their sweet voices and expert phrasing. Students, teachers and farmers from 100 miles around listened reverently to da Vittoria's 16th-Century hymn to the King of Heaven. The Singing Boys made it as simple and severe as the black robes they wore while singing...
...radical from a strong sense of moral duty and an even stronger revulsion from the ugliness of industrialism. Morris was a "very great literary artist" but his tremendous vocabulary was often no help in describing uncongenial modern things. Shaw would suggest the right word, whereupon Morris would gasp with relief. Morris was infuriated with hecklers at debates, while Shaw courted them, so that Shaw would be put forward to demolish foolish questioners while Morris would retreat to the background, pulling his mustache and growling, "Damfool! Damfool!" Such assistance made Shaw feel as though he had given "a penny...