Word: swallowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taxes. With tears actually running down his face, one angry and frustrated G.O.P. leader said: "I can't imagine what Sam Rayburn and John McCormack [majority leader] are thinking about. I know they're patriotic, sincere, honest. But how in God's name they can swallow this program is more than I can see. God knows where we'll wind...
Live Today for Tomorrow (Universal-International). On the bench, Judge Fredric March is a pitiless interpreter of the letter of the law. All of a sudden the judge gets more of his own kind of medicine than he can swallow. His wife (Florence Eldridge), he learns, has an obscure, incurable and agonizing disease. Of course neither he nor his old friend the doctor dreams of telling the poor woman what she's in for, but ultimately, in pity and anguish, the judge determines to kill...
...staging, he brought literature to life for thousands of students. When the announcement went up for one of his readings, students would line the streets outside his hall. Then Copey would enter, order the doors to be locked, spend minutes adjusting his lamp, listen disdainfully for the audience to swallow its coughs, and finally begin. Over the years, those readings became a Harvard institution-long after Copey began to feel old ("Do you suppose I am ever to be well again? You must remember that I am 63 . . ."), and long after he retired ("I am 82 years old-God damn...
SAMUEL BUTLER (118 pp.)-G. D. H. Cole-Alan Swallow...
...picture, turning from one to another with the quick, concentrated attention of a fan at a tennis match. When he looks at the model his brush hovers in midair; when he turns back to the canvas it hesitates a split second, then dips and weaves as swiftly as a swallow building a nest...