Word: breathlessly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Written by Moss Hart and directed by George S. Kaufman, two genuinely funny men who collaborated on Once In A Lifetime, Face the Music's showmanlike libretto spares few phases of the contemporary metropolitan scene its breathless lampooning...
Last week the Supreme Court ran out of work. To the amazement of attendants and onlookers it was forced to adjourn for two days to give breathless attorneys a chance to catch up. Cases were scheduled on its calendar for oral argument throughout the week but by Thursday the court, geared up to fresh efficiency by Chief Justice Hughes, had heard them all and no others were ready for presentation. For once the highest tribunal was functioning faster than the lawyers practicing before it. After its next meeting the court regularly adjourned for three weeks to ponder cases heard, write...
Wonder Boy is a savage, undisciplined, hilarious comedy of the cinemindustry, presented in the breathless manner for which producer Jed Harris (Broadway, The Front Page) is famed. Peter Hinkle (William Challee), a youth without a brain in his head, wants to become a dentist, gets a part in a film to pay his way to New York. President Phil Mashkin (Gregory Ratoff) of the Paragon Pictures Corp., seeking a way to get rid of Star Mabel Fenton (Hazel Dawn), hits upon the idea of making Peter Hinkle a star. On his way to New York Peter is pounced upon, rushed...
...Fodor which relates the story of a drab little girl who has cunning enough to persuade a rich man to let her replace his mistress-secretary, finally to make her his wife. The element which made I Love an Actress bearable is also present in A Church Mouse: breathless little Ruth Gordon, cast in the heroine's role...
...great naval port of Plymouth. When the Royal Navy staged its "greatest mutiny in 134 years" (TIME, Sept. 28), the Noble Lady was naturally distressed. Rushing down to Plymouth she arrived just as the unrepentant Atlantic Fleet steamed in. Last week Plymouth's Nancy was back in London breathless with naval news...