Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bruce Codona lets go of Lala Codona's hands at the end of the swing, catapults to a trapeze which her husband, the great Alfredo, has just left.* Alfredo, leaving without kicking back the trapeze, plunges over her and catches his brother's hands at the dizzy instant of pause before the backswing. Painter Curry liked second best the wise-eyed Riding Clown (Orrin Davenport) waiting for his turn in the ring in orange derby, tie and wig, his red putty nose outlined against a blue night sky. Critics last week admired Curry's feat (as difficult...
...years' worth of important legislation. His smiling facility charmed even rabid Republicans. In a dozen days 14,000 laudatory telegrams swamped the White House. Catching the temper of the times the national commander of the American Legion tried to swing its 10,709 posts behind the President the instant Congress authorized pension cuts...
...Esmond Ovey, British Ambassador to Moscow. In the Soviet citadel his Embassy flaunts life-size oil paintings of King George & Queen Mary in their coronation robes. In Moscow the Ambassador's young men never hesitate to express on Communism, its leaders and practices, opinions which would cause instant arrest for any but a foreign diplomat. Britons are not popular in Moscow...
...himself in effect a King-Dictator, negotiating on equal terms with foreign governments. Affecting a fondness for tiger's blood, which he drank warm from the beast as an aphrodisiac, Old Chang was one of the last absolute monarchs, complete with a decadent, dissolute court and sure of instant obedience when he said (as he often did), "Cut off that man's [or woman's] head...
...towering rage, young Marshal Chiang denounced Fugitive Tang as a "traitor to China," ordered his instant arrest if & when caught. Forgetting that he himself swore only a few weeks ago to defend Jehol to the last-as did the Chinese Nanking Government on the pledged word of Acting Premier & Finance Minister T. V. Soong (TIME, Feb. 27)- the Young Marshal tried to blame everything on the Chinese soldiers he had just shut out of China...