Word: moment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Addressing the 1917 Club, onetime Labor Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald said in London last week: "The sympathy we Laborites feel isn't sycophancy at all. Those of us who have had the great pleasure of knowing the King personally, feel, at a moment like this, how extraordinarily well and absolutely impartially he has done his work...
...contemporary interest in those sports. Nevertheless failure to establish such teams is a direct contradiction to any policy of general physical training. Tournaments in wrestling, boxing, squash, create at best a rather unenduring interest in those sports, for the competitor who ventures into action on the spur of the moment is more than likely to give up his venture after a disastrous encounter in the first round. These include the men that, with the incentive of a numeral and the distinction of a place on a class team would choose to remain in the group of constant strivers...
...police force--that they were the dramatic experts of that organization goes without saying--John M. Casey, who issues the thoushalt-nots to the citizens of Boston, decided that the performance was "unfit for presentation". To communicate this decision to the Mayor's office was the work of one moment, and to publish the prohibition of the play of another...
...political parties not forced me forward I would never have consented to the mention of my name for a third term. That the people of Austria desire me to continue President I do not for one moment doubt . . . during my incumbency much Austrian wit has been expended on my champion milch cow, Bella. Perhaps my countrymen should know that abroad there are few Honest Austrians so well known as Bella." With deadly insinuation angry Dr. Hainisch, then named Monsignor Ignaz Seipel as one of the very best known of Austrians, pointedly omitting to call him honest...
...used is Colombia to labor agitation, that recently President Miguel Abadia Mendez was given the right to declare martial law at a moment's notice when labor troubles threatened. This...