Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yearly in the sinecure of Lord President of the Council while his son Malcolm, as Colonial Secretary, draws ?,.000 ($25,000). Roared Old George: "If any local council had taken two of its members and given them relatively these same positions there would have been an instant uproar in Parliament and Prime Minister MacDonald would have protested as loudly as anyone...
Suddenly the top of the bag pimpled, popped. An instant later the whole crown split open, and 350,000 cu. ft. of helium roared out. An Army sergeant on the gondola understood the crisis first, frantically yelled, "Run! Run! She's busted!" Before any of the 20 men under the bag could do so, they were flattened by nearly three acres of billowing, stifling cloth...
...court for petty larceny, she is taken under the wing of a fatuous matron named Mrs. Parker (Katharine Alexander) who thinks Ginger good copy for a proposed book on child-raising. But Ginger, once installed in the matron's smart house, is bad copy indeed. She takes an instant dislike to her beauteous, black-haired benefactress whom she insults with or without provocation. She knocks over vases, upsets dinner with her bad manners, complains that "this dump is an ice box," thinks all the servants are waiters. By the time she has persuaded the Parker son (Jackie Searl) that...
McIntyre: . . . Floating for an instant in the public eye like a smoke ring and sifting apart...
Morley: . . . Floats an instant in the mind like a smoke-ring, then spreads and thins and sifts apart...