Word: breathless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Breathless minutes passed while the tellers counted. Two hundred fifty-six against Tardieu, but 327 for him?"Vive le Dauphin!" "Vive le Roi!" "Vive VAmericain...
...acting is of the highest order. The character of Disraeli subtly, surely grows under his hands; the race for the Suez Canal passes the bounds of national interest and becomes a contest for the breathless world to watch. His scenes with Lady Beaconfield (Mrs. Arliss) are touching, without being sentimental; with Lord Probert (Ernest Torrence) he transmates financial discussions into powerful drama. The lovely Joan Bennett has charm in the innocuous romantic subplot. But none of the other characters are, or need to be, outstanding. The leading man carries off the play...
...editorial in Monday's CRIMSON on the desirability of some sort of timekeeping device for the spectators at the stadium strikes a clear and timely note. Those breathless moments at the end of the Army game only served to emphasize a need that has long been apparent. Let me add my voice to that of many others I have heard who sincerely hope that your suggestion will receive the attention it deserves. A. G. Hart...
...that it had come. Another child was born to the Empress Nagako. Would it be a boy? Would there finally be a direct heir to the throne of Japan? On the roof of the Tokyo fire house the siren hooted mournfully, rose to a high electric scream. Tokyo waited breathless. Then came another hoot, longer, more mournful. Sadly Tokyo realized that the Empress Nagako had borne another girl, her third.* Emperor Hirohito still lacked a son. The heir to the throne was still Prince Chi-chibu, his brother...
...several breathless seconds officials could not precisely state the whereabouts of Statesman Hughes. But he was not found squashed under dazed and groggy Poland. With the quickness of an elf, little Billy Hughes had dived under the ringside bench just before the Pachyderm landed. "I've always been spry," smiled Statesman Hughes as he crawled...