Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While cameramen chorused, "Just one more, Sir Ronald!" he posed for an instant, cheerfully waggling his umbrella. "You all know why I am here," he said, then popped inside for a 45-minute conference with his diplomatic chief, Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon. When the two emerged together tall Sir John, who was hatless, seemed dwarfed by taller Sir Ronald Lindsay, Ambassador to the U. S. of His Majesty King George. Chatting with animation, Sir John and Sir Ronald crossed to No. 10 Downing St. In the white and gold Cabinet Room they were greeted by Prime Minister James Ramsay...
Hodo is "The Way of the Perfect Emperor" and War Minister Araki would put sword to his taut, flat stomach rather than doubt for a single instant the utter perfection of the "Son of Heaven," bespectacled Emperor Hirohito. Ergo the deeds of the Japanese Army, done exclusively in His Majesty's divine name, must be just, right and essentially merciful deeds...
Inside the palace at that instant Little Tsar Boris and Alexander Malinoff, president of the assembly, were trying to pick a successor for Premier Nicolas Mouscha-noff. just resigned. CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! A volley of shots rattled the tall windows. His Majesty and his minister scampered to the tall portieres just in time to see the hunting dogs, yelping furiously, disappear in the distance while the hunters, the editor and his bodyguards blazed blindly away. Out from their sentry hutches dashed the royal guards to open fire on both parties indiscriminately. A policeman and a window watcher...
...grave have been the world's other troubles in recent weeks that the third successive Indian Round Table Conference has dragged out its deliberations in almost complete obscurity. Last week its Hindus, Moslems, Parsees and British politicians seized the spotlight for a brief instant by marching into the King's Robing Room of the House of Lords for their final session. India Office immediately issued handfuls of optimistic propaganda hailing the Conference as "largely successful." Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary of State for India, sent the delegates home with the following pat on the back...
...automobile belonging to Dickie Moore can be identified as a death car the instant it appears on the floor of Metropolitan Garage. This and other paraphernalia in The Devil Is Driving-an airshaft into which a sedan topples, a narrow two-way ramp full of blind corners-make it a peculiarly stagey exposé. The garage is an interesting and elaborate caution to curious motorists. In addition to its ramps and airshafts, it contains a mechanic stupider than most real ones (Guinn Williams), a speakeasy with onyx bar, a suite of offices in which a racketeer (Alan Dinehart) operates with...