Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Insult-in-Ordinary, repair to the doorstep of your Insulter, and there publicly jump up and down, holding your breath, until your face is purple with congested blood. The insulter's neighbors will not let him forget this rebuke in a hurry...
...successive year the demands of the tired business man have brought the attire of the chorus girl nearer the dead line, but now with the revival of "The Black Crook" by Christopher Morely the bald headed row is at last given an opportunity to sit back and catch its breath. Absolute nudity is the limit of revelation, and the modern developments were approaching it with a dangerous speed. The day is saved, however, by Mr. Morley. The tide has been turned before it was too late...
...never before witnessed a "Chauve-Souris" production the display now on view should prove eminently worth while. It is a fresh breath in a theatrical world just now grown quite sultry. But, on the other hand, warning must be issued that if attending this revue will mean your second or third visit, it may not be all that past memories lead you to expect. For from our carefully amassed comments of theatregoers we find it reported that there is too much sameness in the productions. There is less dash; the joie de vivre seems to have worn...
...river darkened and thundered towards the mill race, light came full on the high façade of decay. Incredible in its loneliness, roofless, floorless, beams criss-crossing the dank interior daylight, the whole place tottered, fit to crash at a breath. Hinges rustily bled where a door had been wrenched away...
...Individualistic Harvard"; the phrase is a happy one. Are we to praise undergraduates for individuality in one breath and blame them for it in the next? If there is a college where individuality is still fostered in this machine-sewn, mass-quantity-production, stamping-mill, best-possible-of-all-universes, the United States, then why complain when its undergraduates do express themselves, even if maladroitly? Are these youngsters comically and unwittingly on the wrong side of the fence; is the "House Plan" they criticize designed expressly to promote the very individualism which makes possible their objection? Very probably. But there...