Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...position, we used to call it indelicate. The proper situation is this: The Man must walk by accident by accident remember into Her room. Personally I don't see anything embarrassing in this; I've had it happen to me by accident actual times. 'His veins surged and his breath came in quick short pants. She sensed his presence and fronted him full. "Back" she feed. He had come nearer. She could hear his pants as he spoke. And then the door closed and there stood the husband...
...just such a condition that the traditions of collegiate major sport would remedy. A man wearing his college let- ter would think twice before allowing himself to be beaten simply because he was weary and out of breath. A little more of the never-say-die spirit, as promulgated by the collegiate code of honor, would help both the standards of tennis and its popularity with the "red-blooded" variety of sport lover...
...dwindling; in short, the country, from the strong and glorious land of 1492, would have become a field of bones and ruins. But alcohol has passed and is forgotten; the country is completely dry. Never is a drunken man seen; in no street car or subway hovers a whiskey breath; no idiotic gaiety can be found in our cafes; every one is serious; no one drinks nor even desires a drink, for all realize now what a fearful poison alcohol is, and without exception the nation rejoices in the profound conviction that wine is neither a food nor an excellent...
...were to admit personalities as scientific or argumentative (which Heaven forbid), we might conceivably, as a pastime, consider the Morris-chair and bedroom-slipper variety of economist in the same breath with the statesman and economist who is building a great nation on a new co-operative principle, might we not, and declare our peculiar preference? J. LESLIE HOTSON...
...capitalist vulgarity. A professor is admitted to polite society not by dint of theatre parties and champagne, but simply because bourgeoisie and Philistines are in mortal terror of his intellect. Money-grubbers and little-brothers-to-the-rich feel in his indigence a power which deprives them of breath. It is part of the show that he should be poor. Dress him in the fashion, slip a yellow-back into his pocket, clap him into a limousine, and, no matter how brilliant he may be, he is useless, he has lost his spell...