Word: breathlessly
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Famed until now as a composer of descriptive fox trots that dash along in short, breathless musical phrases, Scott is working to broaden his style before his public types him for keeps, Scott never writes a note of music from one year's end to the next: he dictates his compositions. This method, he admits, is prompted partly by laziness, partly by the fact that "if you have an audience around, it's very pleasant to compose...
Ladies, Please! Rich or poor, black or white, married or single, women were so eager to sign up that many went without breakfast. Bosses waited in vain for secretaries, nurses arrived late and breathless at hospitals, dishes went unwashed and floors unswept. Some housewives had plans complete for Junior to stay with Grandma for the duration. One mother and daughter would not give their names for fear, Papa would find out. A Washington girl had just accompanied her boy friend to the Marines' recruiting office. A Philadelphia girl would not let photographers take her picture lest her sister find...
...wrong winner at the Poughkeepsie regatta, another time caused Ring Lardner, who sat near him while he was announcing a ball game, to observe that there had been a double-header-the game that was played and the one that McNamee announced. But he had a knack of being breathless, exciting even when describing the hills behind the Rose Bowl, and the fans loved him. At one World Series game, delayed by rain, he cheerfully draped his raincoat over himself and the mike and ad-libbed for 60 minutes in a downpour. Twenty-five million people heard him describe...
...medicine Saturday afternoon when Cornell's powerful eight, although under stroking Captain Ted Lyman's boat, slowly eked out a half-length lead just after the three-quarter mile mark. Eventually Harvard's superior coordination and precision allowed Bus Curwen to raise the beat to a breathless 42, and in the final 20 strokes the Varsity surged ahead for the first time during the race to gain a nerve-wracking deck-length victory, enabling Harvard to retain the Rowe Memorial Cup for at least another year...
...longer any tumbling Japs; but 600-lb., 12-year-old Gargantua is still on display in the basement. The sad, crummy-looking clowns still provoke mirth. Massimilliano Truzzi still juggles flaming torches; the Wallendas ride a bicycle tandem on the high wire; the Flying Concellos do their breathless, double-and-triple-somersault flying leaps; the lions & tigers look simultaneously ferocious and bored; the trained seals render My Country, 'Tis of Thee; and the band still blares & blares, making all its half-hundred numbers sound exactly like the one by Stravinsky...