Word: breathless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...characters are superbly drawn and rendered; in this lies the strength of the play. Charles Waldron, splendid throughout as Captain Dale, reaches his peak in a nine minute speech which holds the audience breathless; Sylvia Weld and Rachel Hartzell are excellent as Dale's daughters, the stubborn and intelligent spirit of the former nicely balancing the dry, almost cynical, humor of the latter. Outstanding are the portrayals of Isobel Elsom and Lillian Foster as Moll Flanders and Mrs. Stowe respectively. Aline Bernstein's set and costumes are well conceived, and Mr. Rice's staging, though at times over-grouped...
Scoring one goal himself on a penalty kick Captain Johnnie Johansen, starred in a fast running attack which left the Indians breathless and Coach Carr well pleased at the final whistle. Howie Mendel, versatile left-outsider booted in two tallies...
Theodore Roosevelt characterized his age when he preached the virtues of the strenuous life. To later students, that period looks more like a hyperthyroid era of American history-an era marked by strident praise of action for the sake of action, when Richard Harding Davis was reporting breathless adventures in South America, Roosevelt I was hunting in Africa, and an inclusive, optimistic belief in the value of a he-man-diet of sleeping under the stars, and spending hours in the saddle suffused popular literature...
What People Say. After studying a picture of Winchell's nervous, foxlike face, examining the column and hearing his breathless voice on the radio, a psychiatrist recently classed Winchell as a sufferer from "sublimated voyeurism," a man who passionately wants to see, to know, hating a secret, vicariously participating in all the things he sees and learns about and living everybody's life...
...Carnegie International show in Pittsburgh last autumn, visitors in the German room stopped before an arresting painting that Critic Edward Alden Jewell described as "beautiful, breathless, haunted and haunting." It was Along the Shore, by a 33-year-old Munich artist named Edgar Ende, and although it won no prize, many a visitor wondered about the work of the artist who created its sombre vision of gloomy sky and water, its statuelike group of horses...