Word: breathless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This program, slightly toned down, Chase & Sanborn brought to its listeners over a coast-to-coast network, with commercial plugs by breathless Graham McNamee. An obvious "natural" for the mass audience, the Good Will Court was given approval by a parade of politicians led by New York's Governor Lehman and New Jersey's Governor Hoffman. The lower court judges and retired magistrates who served received $250 each, "for charity." An endless stream of stammering unfortunates appeared to feed its microphones. Not too sure they liked the idea, but reluctant to cross a good client, National Broadcasting...
...ultimate Irish insult of tagging him "Prime Minister Goldwyn." But the drama the world wanted to see, Edvardus Rex, was acting and writing itself hour by hour as the amazing facts erupted. They formed not a stately royal play such as Laurence Housman's Victoria Regina* but a breathless cinema of swift pace and jazz tempo...
...Duke of York, heir to the Throne and hitherto always dignified to the point of insipidity, was so quickened and excited last week about whether he might at any moment become King and Emperor that, after a conference with his mother, Queen Mary, breathless York alighted at his home and rushed inside to tell his Duchess the latest with the long-legged bounce of a bolting jack rabbit, too fast for anything but the camera to catch (see cut). The accustomed massive aplomb of the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin was accelerated until the Prime Minister became one day last week...
More than 3,000 music lovers packed the Municipal Auditorium, sat enthralled as Pianist Casadesus rippled through Scarlatti, were breathless as he began a Mozart sonata, suddenly winced when the piano's right pedal dropped off. Flinging his hands wide apart, Pianist Casadesus shrugged pathetically, ordered attendants to wheel the piano upstage, concluded the sonata on the house piano...
...Harry Payne, a onetime Howard quarterback, to work part-time for $900. Under Coach Payne the Bisons proceeded to lose every game, were held scoreless in four of them. Fortnight ago 3,000 spectators were waiting in the stands to see Howard play Virginia Union when an announcer ran breathless onto the field with the news that the Bisons had quietly walked out on the game...