Word: breathless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...League flashed across the ice and began to belabor the puck. Quickly the All-Star team began to pile up a 6-to-2 lead. Then suddenly in the last four minutes of play, the Maroons-Canadiens clicked. Three swift goals followed, then the closing bell. Winners by a breathless margin, the All-Stars skated off the ice with a 6-to-5 victory. Thus was raised enough money, added to private subscriptions, to make a fund of $23,000 for the widow and three children of Howarth ("Howie") Morenz. speediest forward in hockey history, who died last winter after...
...Somewhat breathless from all this, newly-elected Benjamin Fairless hustled home from the directors' meeting to his suite in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, was so agog he forgot to collect his key at the desk on the ground floor. Finding the door locked and his wife out, Ben Fairless asked a passing maid to let him in. Suspiciously she refused. So did another. "Hell!" snapped President-elect Fairless, "This is a fine pickle. Nobody knows me around here...
...start of last week stock prices had already been whistling for eight weeks in a steep slalom around such) formidable obstacles as reports of record farm income for 1937, miscellaneous bullish statistics, encouragement from the Federal Reserve Board and optimistic comments by Governmental bigwigs. Last week, having dropped a breathless 55 points from the summer peak of 190 set by the Dow-Jones industrial averages on Aug. 14, the market did a graceful telemark around still another formidable obstacle-prosperous third-quarter earning statements...
...nostalgic New York Times editorial last week observed, "side-wheelers and side-whiskers go together in the memory." Thousands of New England newlyweds and not-yet-weds got their first breathless glimpse of Manhattan from the deck of a Fall River queen, occasional suicides bought tickets and jumped overboard, U. S. Presidents and statesmen from abroad enjoyed the luxury of travel on Long Island Sound and well-dressed financiers on board were mistaken for sports and gamblers by sports and gamblers. A great show for ordinary passengers and dock gawpers was the splendorous debarkation of socialities at Newport...
...Kruif-Parran article is a statement of the known facts about syphilis and its treatment, written in Mr. de Kruif's breathless style. Example: "And what is more dastardly than the way this microbe gangster then sneaks back out of his hiding? So that a husband, having long ago forgotten a past indiscretion, may then infect his wife. So that a mother, unaware that death has ever lurked within her, may pass it to the babe growing in her womb." Constructively, the Ladies' Home Journal backed up the article by editorially endorsing a Wassermann test for every pregnant...