Word: moment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...village, ordering a coffin for his wife. Nothing would do but that he must hop in with them and rush to thank H. R. H. for stopping at his house. When embarrassed Challenger Frank came apologetically up to Challengee Wales the latter wrung his hand warmly, and said a moment later to a charity field secretary, "See that you do something for that old chap...
...great for the boys to make, and they do it with a grin a mile long on their faces, too. Well, perhaps not quite a mile, but an awfully long grin, anyway. Just to show you what I mean, Old Lummy ("Arthur") Welsbach the cook is, at this moment, sticking toothpicks into potatoes to make little men out of them, little men which he will stand on the table as a joke to the crew when they come down to "grub," and the laugh that will greet this prank is as good as given, written up, and wirelessed already. Such...
Architects can perhaps perform the miracle of making steel stands a thing of beauty, harmonizing with the present concrete stadium. But at this moment it looks as if all that could be accomplished would be the perpetuation of an ugliness which may have been excusable in temporary wooden stands because they were known to be a makeshift...
Bishop Cannon is the first to receive the Christian Herald's award, which hereafter will be annual. Since the Christian Herald is the largest Protestant weekly in the U. S. its award is a matter of no small moment. In time, Editor High and Chain-Store Tycoon James Cash Penney, who is president of the Christian Herald Association, Inc., hope to have their award rated as a sort of Nobel prize for religion. Unlike the Nobel prizes, however, Christian Herald awards will go to none but U. S. citizens...
...like, but for heaven's sake don't exaggerate, and at least have the courtesy not to ignore the fact that there are serious-minded persons who have a conception of tourists as fitting in perfectly with our national program. "I beg you to consider for a moment that the tourist from beyond the Alps and beyond the ocean is a consumer, is a purchaser. Perhaps they don't buy many shoes or clothes, but they buy a great deal of luggage and many things, including Venetian shawls, Roman scarfs, alabaster, coral and tortoise shell. Perhaps they...