Word: breathless
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sober moments he was, as played by Mr. Faversham, decidedly a charming and appealing person. These two, despite other names on the program, decidedly carried away the show. When they finally clasped at the last curtain, applause was almost forgotten by the audience for a moment in the breathless savoring of a vicarious hug; but when the applause came it was better criticism than could be offered here or any other place...
Within the silent sanctity of the Union the Harvard team will sit, doughty warriors of many a bygone contest, pondering deep in thought, while the cheering thousands hang breathless on their move. The decision will be made amid tumultuous joy, the eager operators will flash the word to No Man's Land; while on roofs, in trees, on catboats, in the highest mountain tops and to the far corners of the cornerless earth, uncounted receivers will take up the word, and follow the victorious play...
...pains to ... "Make impassioned sense believe That memory improves my dull today." Mr. Sanger's "Aeroplanes" has a good swing. The "Grotesque" by Mr. Norris contains a good idea, marred at times by a somewhat perfunctory technique. The "Phantasy," by Mr. Willcox, though abounding in color and imagination, is breathless in its movement; it reminds one of the "patter" of comic opera. Mr. Rogers is dreadfully sophisticated. But perhaps "Retrospect" is not his last word on life. "A Thought" represents him in a less heartless mood. Mr. Parson expresses in a meditative sonnet his awareness of the power...
...five goals. The B. A. A. seven suffered through lack of team-work, which prevented its most sensational player, Skilton, from shooting as many goals as he otherwise might have done. The whole game was replete with spectacular plays on both sides, which held the 6,500 spectators breathless during the whole time...
...thrown back for a loss of three yards. It was not until the end of the last quarter, when Princeton recovered a Williams' fumble on the latter's 16-yard line, that her backfield had the power to push the ball across the line for a touchdown. Law, amid breathless excitement, succeeded in gaining the point necessary to avert defeat...