Word: moment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Orateurs Funèbres, Owen D. Young, Chairman of the Second Dawes Committee (see International); Aristide Briand, the cello-voiced, bushy-eyebrowed Foreign Minister of France; and Mr. John Ridgely Carter, Paris Morgan Partner, representing J. Pierpont Morgan. Although suffering from a heavy cold, Mr. Morgan at the last moment disregarded the advice of physicians and sped by motor to attend the simple service held for Mr. Herrick at the Paris Pro-Cathedral. That edifice is capable of holding less than 1,000, and an appalling crush ensued...
...just when Kemal gave this order, the other great Eastern Europeanizer, Afghanistan's King Amanullah, was forced from his throne (TIME, Jan. 28). Reflecting that perhaps such a moment was not propitious for making religious alterations in Turkey, Kemal rescinded his order...
...present Duke of Sutherland, lazying at Lausanne, saw a photograph of the portrait in the Sun, with a report of its presence in the U. S. For a moment the Duke wondered if he was bemused. But there could be no doubt that his pictured ancestress remained as she had for years, at his country home in Guildford, England. He so informed...
Even this triumphal moment, I.T.&T.'s first taste of pomp, failed to draw Brother Sosthenes from his silence. As always, he met eager interviewers with his invariable statement: "It is not I, but the company...
...last week appeared likely that Erma would soon change to Irma. Born in 1926, Erma grew very rapidly, but last winter it appeared that her constitution had been undermined and that she was likely to collapse at any moment. Should Erma actually become Irma, however, the change would be a potent augury of future good health...