Word: moment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the story, nor was she mentioned at all in the United States by A. P., Universal or United Press; she is not red-headed but blonde; she is not the daughter but granddaughter of the late U. S. Senator Bankhead (Ala. D.). Whether she "was robbed for a moment of her gay and civilized exuberance" is problematical but doubtful...
Tallulah Bankhead, red-headed daughter of the late U. S. Senator Bankhead, an actress with an ecstatic London following, was robbed for a moment of her gay and civilized exuberance by an event which was like a threatening whisper in the dark. A man had jumped off the steamship Rochambeau, at night, into the Atlantic Ocean. The steamship had turned around in her course and sent a lifeboat to find him in the black wilderness of waves. When found, the man, nervous, apologetic, was carried to the deck and helped through a crowd of frightened passengers to his stateroom...
...around her neck. Her secretary suggested that she hold the New York delegation's state standard. It was passed up to the bo:: and she held it, beaming. Newsgatherers implored her to say something and with tears on her plump cheeks she said: "This is the happiest moment of my life, to find that others appreciate the Governor as I do." They tried to put a baby donkey into her arms. "Send it up to Albany," she said, laughing and crying at the same time. She dispensed scores of autographs, shook hundreds of hands, nodded answer to a thousand...
...some short circuit, he had returned to complete his interrupted robbery. Yet this time again Charles Callan was disturbed. A policeman took him by the shoulder and hustled him to court. Here Charles Callan was confronted by a snapshot of himself showing him in a characteristic pose. In a moment Charles Callan recognized St. Joseph's poor box and his own face peering into it. "Whar did you git that there?" he asked the judge who made no reply but sentenced the thief to jail...
...those extraordinary men who are able to associate themselves simultaneously and successfully with totally dissimilar enterprises. He publishes the Red Book; its staff regards him solely as an expert upon what the public likes to read. The men who help him with the Ravinia Park scheme never for a moment doubt that this is his principal interest in the world. Ever since 1913, when he started the concerts by engaging the Chicago Symphony for a summer, he has kept the programs of the Ravinia music. Now, when asked about the history of his Ravinia Park concerts, Louis Eckstein points...