Word: moment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...country men like Proust and Hampton and Thomas Mann. With the expenditure of some labor elementary knowledge does not preclude the enjoyment of these writers. And well disciplined intelligent individual study in line with all modern tendencies promises more of permanence and adhered to yields as much at the moment as grammatical boredom...
...request breathed life into one of the most delicate political relations of the season. Soon after Mr. Houghton's mission was announced, arrived a letter from Frank Orren Lowden of Illinois, Nominee Hoover's long-sulking rival for last June's nomination. It was the first utterance of any moment that Mr. Lowden had made since withdrawing from the Kansas City convention. The Lowden letter was to Nominee Houghton. not Nominee Hoover, but it was most effusive and friendly. Ostensibly it congratulated Mr. Houghton on his several-weeks-old nomination. Tacitly it announced that Mr. Lowden, no "socialist," would...
...advertisement advertised that the G. O. P. had put "a chicken in every pot," had "filled the workingman's dinner pail and his gasoline tank besides and placed the whole nation in the silk-stocking class." Said Nominee Smith: "Now, just draw on your imagination for a moment and see if you can in your mind's eye picture a man at $17.30 a week going out to a chicken dinner in his own automobile, with silk socks...
...importance of these three flights cannot be overestimated. Although ocean flights are undeniably more romantically spectacular they are scarcely more perilous, and, certainly at the present moment, hardly as important to the advancement of practical aviation. Commercial flying must continue for.a while to be chiefly over land...
Quail are good to eat on toast, their little paws pointing like small handles over their plump stomachs. They should be hunted in the south and will be this year by Gen. John J. Pershing, Vice President Dawes, and perhaps Irvin S. Cobb. President Coolidge at this moment has a special setter in training, for what purpose no one knows, but possibly for quail hunting...