Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Astrid, Queen of the Belgians, was purchased last week by His Majesty Leopold III, still cruelly torn by pangs of grief and remorse. In his castle at Brussels the King continues to reflect that Astrid, to whom he was wholly devoted, would be at his side today if an instant's inattention had not sent the car he was driving off the road and crashing into a tree (TIME, Sept. 9). The Queen is buried in Belgium but around the tiny plot of Swiss soil Leopold III ordered built a low wall with a cross erected inside. Indignantly...
...impossible not to loathe and admire Captain Bligh just as much as in the book. From the moment he ordered the flogging of the dead sailor to the instant when he left the court martial, we felt just as strongly as Fletcher Christian. Even during his moments of greatness when he was navigating an open boat 3500 miles out of sight of land, he never lost his sadistic and narrow outlook. Charles Laughton became Captain Bligh...
Idealist of War. On the afternoon of his appointment as Governor-General, plain John Buchan M. P. was having tea in the House of Commons when the division bell rang and a waiter warned him that he should go in and vote. For the merest instant a flicker of pride played on His Excellency's bloodless lips. "I ceased to be a member of this House," he told the waiter, "at 3 o'clock this afternoon...
...attention to the performances turned in by the men on the scrub teams. This will be one of the special functions of the new coach-at-large, Jimmy Dunn. He will try to keep track of all of the teams at once, with the idea of giving a Jayvee instant promotion to the Varsity if he begins to look like the answer to Harlow's needs...
...appreciate Shirley Temple's current position in the cinema industry it is merely necessary to imagine for a painful instant what her absence might have made of a vehicle which, because of her presence, be comes passable entertainment. She is scarcely ever off the screen in Curly Top, executes so many of her specialties that for her confirmed admirers the picture should be the most effective of the rapid series of four she has made since becoming a star last winter. In the course of her impersonation Shirley Temple sings two songs (Animal Crackers in My Soup, When...