Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...courtroom guard was stationed hardly a dozen feet from the camera. Counsel for both sides could easily have been aware that their examination of Col. Lindbergh, Mrs. Lindbergh, Dr. Condon and Defendant Hauptmann was being recorded for history. It was generally understood that the films would be released the instant the trial ended...
...President Hayashi's steamers for Mihara-yama, then merely considered a picturesque volcano. The historic day was Feb. 11, 1933. Miss Tomito, after seeing her friend jump safely to certain Death, tripped ecstatically away, explained her brilliant idea next day to chums at Jissen Girls' College. Instant persecution followed. Pecking newshawks gave Miss Tomito no rest, blew her up into a national sensation and started the procession which has brought to grim Mihara-yama 350 known suicides and 1,386 attempted suicides in two short years. Smitten down by the Press furor, delicate Miss Tomito visibly pined away...
...dies-all these and a dozen other great Dickensian characters live and move and have their being in this picture. Best of the lot, though, is Mr. Micawber, played by W. C. Fields, red-nosed, dazzled, grandiloquent and undespairing. It is Micawber, hounded by creditors but never for an instant quailing at their squalid naggings, who first protects young David Copperfield in London. It is Micawber whose fine denunciation of Uriah Heep brings David Copperfield finally to its conclusion...
...complete the impression that the Saar was in his bag, Realmleader Hitler meanwhile appointed one of his oldest friends, Herr Josef Bürckel, a qualified German elementary schoolteacher, to be Governor of the Saar from the instant of victory. Accustomed to making himself clear to tiny tots, prospective Governor Bürckel repeated over & over before the microphone that the Saar will be different from the rest of Germany in that it will have no Nazi prison camps. Saar Jews, listening intently, could not quite make out whether Broadcaster Bürckel was promising them immunity, or merely that...
...Dictator's pet collective farms should have staged an assassination of Red by Red, no matter under what pretext, meant just one thing in Russia. Last week Pravda, newsorgan of the Party, banned any further staged assassinations, denounced Saratov's rustic thespians, demanded their instant punishment...