Word: gasp
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...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...
Since Professor Yandell Henderson of Yale, by his studies on the biochemistry of respiration and the physiology of circulation, indicated the way, doctors have been giving their failing pneumonia patients extra oxygen to breathe. Enough oxygen then can get through the plugged air spaces at each gasp to sustain the dying patient for two, three minutes. Consequently he need not strain to breathe at the normal rate (16 to 20 times a minute...
When Chicagoans trooped down to the South Side to witness the wrigglings of Fatima ("The Seventh Daughter of the Seventh Daughter") on the Midway, to gasp at gorgeous pyrotechnic displays, to parade through the handsome plaster buildings of Messrs. McKim, Mead & White at the Columbian ("World's Fair") Exposition, Reporters Lillie West Brown and George Ade shared a desk in the city room of the Chicago Daily News. Reporter Ade rose to be a special writer, then dramatic editor, then conductor of a column, finally a free-lance humorist (Fables in Slang) and playwright (The Sultan of Sulu...