Word: breathless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little after 7 p.m. when the phone rang. The voice on the other end was breathless: Could Miss Varnay get down to the Metropolitan Opera House at once? Helen Traubel was ill and the Met had to have a new Isolde right away. An hour later, Astrid Varnay, hastily bewigged and costumed, but with no spare time for even a few warm-up scales, was ready to go on stage...
Thus the U.S.'s merry-go-round policy on Palestine came to a brief stop. For the moment everyone could get a fixed look at the breathless man on the carousel...
Selden Rodman has collected 100 American poems, ranging from the twisted, Donne-like prayers of colonial minister Edward Taylor to a fine elegy by 31-year-old Robert Lowell. To introduce the poems, Rodman has written a breathless essay which takes the reader on a dizzy, profitless tour of American poetic history. Most readers will prefer to skip Rodman's off-the-hip grading of American poets and go directly to their work. On the whole, his selections are very good. He has omitted such chestnuts as The Raven and 0 Captain! My Captain! and included less well-known...
...Somewhat breathless after a half-page assault on U.S. civilization in general ("racism, gangsterism, alcoholism . . . prostitution disguised as law"), L'Humanité begged readers to send in suggestions for future treatment...
Three Swatches. On Friday night Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard, which had spurned the vows of secrecy imposed on every other paper, printed a picture purporting to be Elizabeth's wedding dress. It showed only three vague swatches of material draped over a couch, leaving a breathless public in no way wiser, but Elizabeth determined to tighten security measures even further...