Word: gasp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent vintage, the offering this week at the Wilbur is concerned with marriage and executed in the breezy fashion popularized by Noel Coward. Henry Hull parades around in a water-soaked derby, a full dress suit, and a baby-pink blanket in a manner that would make Alfred Lunt gasp in admiration...
...feet heavily manacled, hobbled forward; how the back of the prisoner's neck was shaved "to better expose his flesh to the sharp knife of 'the widow' [guillotine]." Then ''like a flash the neck piece clamped Gorgulov into position and, before he could gasp, the knife, well weighted, fell nine feet. . . . There was no autopsy...
...more to damage the reputation of James John ("Jimmy") Walker, his predecessor, than a year's investigating by Samuel Seabury. Mayor McKee, young, handsome, sober, tackled his new job with a vigor and thoroughness that made many a New Yorker who had forgotten what good government was like gasp with happy astonishment. A new broom, he swept clean and by last week had accumulated a sizeable pile of Tammany trash...
...have criminal records, bids them good day. Only clew to the murder is a small bamboo tube which is missing after the meeting. Going to the home of Dr. Lengle (William von Brincken) Commissioner Colt finds the tube, and Lengle dead. The contents of the tube make audiences gasp. Explanation of the murders causes natural historians to scoff...
This appointment made Washington gasp. Mr. Pomerene, a solemn, bookish man with a Websterian manner, whose hobby is growing early table corn, is not a banker. He is not a famed executive. While he made a good Senator, his name, it was claimed, was not familiar enough to inspire nation-wide confidence...