Word: fleetingness
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"The candidates who were the beneficiaries of this revolt of the voters against government which had ceased to be civilized and politics which was nothing more than rapine, grand larceny, degeneracy, sadism, privileged murder and systemized extortion, must be touched in the head if they think that the April election...
Dramatic in the life of Bambi is his first passionate fight, antler-locked with a rival buck, for Faline, sleek and lovely mate. Dramatic is the first fleeting encounter with his father, aristocrat of animals. And not till he has proved himself worthy of his father's company does...
Reporters, telegraphers, editors, printers were the first to feel the effect of their flight; to them it meant just another day of newspapers. Skippers of steamships next craned their necks, scanning the leaden skies for some sign of this fleeting Bremen.* But when Baron Ehrenfried Gunther von Huenefeld, Capt. Hermann...
Sadness, like fame, is fleeting. When the trans-Atlantic heroes reached Manhattan a city went mad with welcome. . . . Once again the wires hummed with consequences.
The very nature of an educational convention, with its fleeting luncheons and dinners and myriad speeches on everything from the automobile library to the little red schoolhouse, is a denial of sober and detailed consideration of a problem. Likewise doubtful in value are conferences of college and secondary school executives...