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Word: moment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...school, teaches her how to drink. Ousted from school, the girl visits Manhattan to find the Park Avenue home her mother has spoken of so often. It is a dull, wandering fiction, hardly made bearable by the good looks of Dolores (Mrs. John Barrymore) Costello. Most expected shot: the moment when the girl and her mother meet in a bar where the mother, who had lied about her high estate, has been swigging with sailors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 26, 1929 | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...evacuation. Before M. Briand's morrow dawned fresh hurling of ultimata back and forth in the financial section of the Conference (see below) had so incensed French public opinion that the French Prime Minister was obliged to retreat. Calling personally on Dr. Stresemann he explained that "pour le moment, I can get no date to announce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: The Hague Haggle | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...Provocative incidents" reported during the week, any one of which might serve at a moment's notice as "provocation for declaring war" were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Growing Graver | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Suddenly hearing a low crescendo of oices, the officer whirled toward the new gate leading from the Mosque Omar to the lane, shouted a hoarse phrase at the drowsing Arabs. For a moment they stood horror-struck, then fled. Through the gate poured a screaming, howling mass of Arabs, flaunting banners that flapped like big bats in the twilight. Down the lane they roared. Vainly an old beadle tried to halt them, was seized by powerful dark hands, hurled aside. Two Jews bowed in prayer at the altar were savagely beaten. In a frenzy of plunder the Moslems burned prayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: On Tisha B'Ab | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...came when the popular Slovene priest, Father Anton Koroshetz, onetime Prime Minister, was suddenly demoted by King Alexander from the important status of Minister of Communications to relative insignificance as Minister of Forests and Mines. Deliberately the Dictator-King had put off shelving popular Slovene Koroshetz to a moment when the Slovene people as a whole would be applauding Royalty's choice of a Slovene name for the baby Prince. Such a trick is typical of King Alexander, would only work of course on a people as simple as his peasants. Time after time His Majesty has employed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Much in a Name | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

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