Word: moment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...back into your memories!" doomed the cello. "Have you forgotten that it was at the moment of Verdun that America joined us in the War? ... I had then the formidable honor of being the head of the Government of France. I know whereof I speak. The enemy was in the suburbs of Verdun. Those were hours of anguish! No one then believed that victory would perch upon our flags...
Pausing a long moment; M. Briand let his words sink in, then cried with redoubled fervor...
...Verdun! In that desperate moment we called upon the men of the United States for our just cause. However bitter may be our internal debates in this painful discussion, I can hear the heart of France beating in gratitude to America! I am saying these words so that the people across the seas will know that there are some moments Frenchmen will never forget...
...last week to cheer themselves purple in the face. "Hoch der Bremen!" roared stout sires. Dimpling Frauleins echoed, "Hoch der Bremen!" Radio carried the massed cheering to remotest German hamlets. From stern Prussia to mellow Saxony the whole Fatherland throbbed and thrilled as croaking loud speakers announced that any moment now there would sail from Bremerhaven on her maiden voyage the giant S. S. Bremen-a supership built to wrest from Britain the trans-Atlantic speed record held for the past 22 years by Cunard's famed Mauretania...
Mima. Exciting, spectacular drama. Hell's smart rulers, to destroy the good in man, invent a sin-mill. Through it goes Janos, model man. At the last moment the one good act he does makes the machine explode. The act: forgiveness of the charming sin-woman, Mima (in the U. S., Lenore Ulric). Says Molnar: "The machine itself is nothing more than a visible combination of our machine world and the psychological grind...