Word: gaspeing
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...post office on a hand truck. Clerk Werkheiser, an arm and a leg blown away, was being trundled out on another truck. The post office was a wreck? bundles, letters, glass, splinters and debris hurled every which way. The two clerks, mangled and beyond recovery, managed to gasp out details of what had happened before they died. Three other clerks who were torn, cut and bleeding badly, and the five remaining infernal packages, still intact on the mailing counter, pieced out the story further. A Mennonite minister who had been addressing mail when the two bomb-mailers were there, added...
...shot pictures in Canadian lumber camps at 27° below Zero, on the spire of Manhattan's Chrysler Building, where it took three men to steady the tripod. Her 1930 New York business announcement, an ascending view of the Chrysler spire taken from atop the scaffolding, made recipients gasp. In her recent five weeks in Russia she had five proposals of marriage. She uses an Ansco "view-type" camera (but always carries a Graflex, too); develops her plates herself...
...News men, who staged the stunt, ground their cameras busily. As the Los Angeles climbed above the smoke screen and headed for home, the white vapor continued to drift lower and lower until mild panic occurred in the streets. A man riding atop a Fifth Avenue bus began to gasp and cough. He shouted "Sulphur!" and led a stampede of passengers down the stairs. Motorists complained to police that particles of the smoke had burned tiny holes in the tops of their automobiles. Scared pedestrians felt stinging sensations in their faces & hands, found their clothing dotted with acid burns...
...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...