Word: breathless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Portuguese, sympathetic with Spain's Whites, kept broadcasting to the Alcázar cadets from Lisbon: "The world is breathless before your heroism! If you can hold out you can have full revenge on your tormentors. Moroccan troops have instructions not to leave a soul alive in Toledo! They are within nine miles of the city butchering Marxist villagers." This false claim made mirth for the Reds who also guffawed when White Seville broadcast on Aug. 31 the lie that White "Colonel Yague is at the gates of Toledo...
Except for a fleeting appearance in 1933 when she was threatened with kidnapping, slender, brown-eyed, olive-skinned Peggy Anne first stepped into the national spot-light when she went with 79-year-old Grandfather John Manuel Landon to the Cleveland Convention last month, kept breathless cameramen, radio announcers, feminine newshawks and lady politicians on the run for three days. But she has long been well-known to Kansans. Left motherless at 13 months and reared by a soft-voiced, Irish nurse named Theresa Cahill, she was only 6 when her father began taking her on some...
...Breathless in pace and implications was the swooping Balkan air tour last week of autocratic German Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, whom closest friends call "Willy." In Vienna, Belgrade, Athens, Sofia and Budapest the Machiavellian doctor had fun insisting that he flew only to promote "economic peace." Just before he took off for Berlin, however, tactless Dr. Schacht could not resist blurting out what kind of economic peace he promotes. "Do creditor countries desire to renounce their claims against Germany?" he asked sharply. "If so they should say so, as Germany must either be allowed to earn...
...into its normal strife, and Home Rule was set back two generations. Margaret Leamy, relict of one of Charles Stewart Parnell's few henchmen who stuck by him after his disaster, has recorded her memories of those gloomily exciting days. Her book is written with a kind of breathless broguishness that may make Irish hearts thump. To others it will be no more exciting than looking into a family album at faded and old-fashioned pictures...
...Breathless, red-faced and disheveled, a young Austrian Nazi ducked into a cafe on Vienna's Wiedner Hauptstrasse one morning last week, slipped up to a table and gasped: "Der Linzer Putsch ist futsch!" (a fizzle at Linz). Within a few hours all Europe knew the details of the latest half-cocked attempt of an Austrian Nazi band to seize power, and disgusted German Nazis were again calling their southern brethren stupid sheepsheads...