Word: gasps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan divine, returned from the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. at Columbus, Ohio. From his pulpit, he declared he would rather submit his conscience to the tyranny of the Pope than to the tyranny of a General Assembly. His devoted congregation prepared to gasp, but quickly found itself smiling when the pastor added: "I never thought I would turn to the Roman Pontiff for liberty...
...embraces of his prodigious opponent. After eight minutes of wrestling, however, he picked up the opposing Hercules, twirled him around his head, hurled him to the floor. Another fall followed in even shorter time. Mrs. Bessie Kaufman, wife of Munn's manager, fainted, with a little gasp, into the lap of Mrs. Edna Munn...
...evaporate in his mouth. Would any one else like to try the experiment? One Joseph Phillips, a sceptical sophomore, stepped to the platform. Instead of merely holding the liquified gases in his mouth, he raised high the beaker, swallowed at a gulp. In- stantly, he began to gasp, to gag, strangle. He was in grave danger, everyone saw, of being blasted by the expanding vapor. The professor shouted: "Keep your mouth open." Vapor began to issue in immense, frothy clouds from this orifice. Sceptic Phillips recovered...
...gasp, I choke...
...dungheap and motorcar morality of the present novel is the symbol of man's wonder and disgust at his failure. The storm of realism which has swept away the simple sentimentality of pre-war America is not the dying gasp of a degenerate literature: it is the attempt of man to know himself. He has been trying ever since Socrates, but only in periods of disillusioned self-scrutiny has he attained any measure of success. By understanding his strengths, his weaknesses, his abilities and his stupidities he may be able to cure those desperate ills which humanity refastens upon itself...