Word: breathless
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From College Humor's offices in Chicago's North La Salle street last week issued three breathless announcements...
...ensuing breathless events Allen loses everything-his friend, his wife, his military honor. He suffers the martyrdom without which Catherine predicted nothing valuable for Ireland or for himself could be won. Outcast, Catherine accompanies him. Like her carrier pigeons, that fly always in one direction through the sky's abyss, the two are oriented by a single ideal, head instinctively toward its consummation, as the pigeons head towards home...
...Orient, an explanation which did not allay the suspicion that the set was a jungle scene that was shipped by mistake to the wrong lot. The employer proves to be a lecherous old party and real damage is only prevented by the arrival of a very righteous and breathless hero...
...Charlemagne's champions: Roland & Oliver. Only two women were in court: the rector's wife, who sat among the witnesses, and a dark mysterious woman in scarlet who sat in the balcony, never spoke, fascinated the gentlemen of the Press. White-haired Dr. Davidson rushed into court breathless, flustered, 20 minutes late, followed by an infuriated taxi-driver who shouted that the defendant had slipped him a penny instead of a half-crown for his fare. Throughout the trial the rector had trouble with taximen. One day he had to borrow his fare from a reporter. Chief witness...
Sousa's power has consequently been infinite. A nation has risen to his call; the lowliest citizen has felt the irresistable challenge of the measured rhythms. In brightly lighted music halls throughout an urbane world, sophisticated audiences experience a breathless thrill at the rousing strains of a Sousa encore. In the gathering dusk of a weary day, the pledding step of a dogged doughboy is lightened, his heart quickened by the same inspiring tune. As long as music is played, as long as men march, Sousa will be immortalized as the Great March King...