Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...firm of Shober & Carqueville. A year later he was a scene painter for the Chicago Opera, priming the enormous backdrops with a large brush dipped in glue. This job he attacked so earnestly that at the end of his first day's work he fell in a dead faint on the floor. His name was Albert Sterner, born a U. S. citizen, in England, of naturalized parents...
...leave the session after this uncompromising document was thrown at A.F. of L. was tough Joseph Curran, president of C.I.O.'s new National Maritime Union. Asked why the meeting had broken up, he snapped: "Hell, you can't expect men to come out of a dead faint and go right on negotiating." George Harrison, added the hardboiled seaman, was "still quivering...
...decade sportsfans have known that the "Carey" of Ring Lardner's immortal Alibi Ike is only a faint camouflage for the bowlegged, wisecracking figure of Charles Dillon ("Casey") Stengel, 46, baseball's No. 1 living legend. Last week Casey Stengel got ready to enlarge the legend...
...Ghost of Yankee Doodle" Sidney Howard grapples with the problem of war and peace, demonstrates the impotence of sober liberalism as pitted against drunken jingoism, but ends with a faint note of hope for the forces of temperance and sanity, a note which is scarcely justified by what has gone before. A great newspaper owner, a frank caterer to mob passions, is the chief antagonist; while two brothers, a manufacturer and a one-paper journalist, do battle for liberalism and pacifism, but draw their strength from a woman, their sister-in-law. There is something in the play...
...towers of lighthouses that stand on Thatcher Island, and the lovely shoreline shining in the afternoon sun. He thought of the buoys, charts, and lights, the aids to navigation, that make it possible for modern man to travel on the sea in safety; he thought especially of the first faint, fitful gleam that Columbus glimpsed at San Salvador when he reached these shores, and of the lighthouse soon to be erected in that same spot in the form of a cross to honor the memory of the man who discovered America...