Word: gaspingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York divorcée whose engagement to another great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria's had just been announced. Her name alone was enough to make Mayfair gasp-it was Mrs. Simpson. This time, however, there was no danger that a romance would rock a throne. Romaine Simpson had no connection with Wally, Duchess of Windsor. Her fiance, handsome David Michael Mountbatten, did not have to ask his cousin George's permission to marry. The Marriage Act makes an exception of the offspring of princesses who marry into foreign families. Milford Haven's royal great-grandmother...
...Last Gasp. In Loving, the first Henry Green novel to be published in the U.S. and perhaps the best of his seven, readers will see for themselves just what the "rudimentary" trap of blended yearning, lust, selfishness and self-sacrifice, i.e., love, looks like in the hands of an experienced man with a musical ear, an impressionist painter's eye, and a poet's obsession with life's hidden undercurrents and emotional mysteries...
...football game ever played in San Francisco's Kezar Stadium (before 40,000 spectators), Sports Editor Vernon ("Curley") Grieve of Hearst's Examiner got so excited last week that he thought he heard voices. Wrote Grieve: "When Mayor Elmer G. Robinson turned on the floodlights ... a huge gasp escaped from the throng and it rolled upward like escaped steam from a huge boiler. It was then-unanimously-that the crowd mumbled: 'This is grand. This is what we need and want...
...headlines: FLAUNT PET TORTURE AT DOG SHOW! VISITORS SICKEN AT CRUEL SIGHT. A picture of a dog named Fluffy, which had a tube connecting its stomach to a pouch collecting gastric juices, was captioned: "In helpless torment, deprived of even the relief of barking a protest, Fluffy can only gasp in grip of [the University of Chicago's] Dr. N. R. Brewer." Another picture on the same page showed a dog on which a prostate operation had been performed. The Hearst legend: "Unspeakable sadness is burned deep in the eyes, the hopeless expression of Fritz, caught in torturers...
...first home run, smacked from a wide-legged, right-handed stance, was a tremendous wallop that cleared Forbes Field's left-field fence by a good 75 feet. His second, landing on top of the scoreboard, brought a gasp of admiration from Teammate Ralph Kiner, the league's home-run leader and No. 2 batsman. Last week, after playing in only twelve games, Rookie Restelli had collected seven homers, driven in 14 runs, scored 13 himself, and filled the clubhouse with boxes of spaghetti (compliments of Pittsburgh fans...