Word: moment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suggest that the "million U. S. taxpayers" who, like myself, have long awaited news of this inevitable accident contribute to a fund to erect a monument commemorating the spot. What would be more fitting than to have Ellis Colvin pose for the sculptor, assuming the position he had the moment before the calamity fell? What do other tax (W)PAyers say to this...
...streamlined elephant has its knees bending the wrong way? An elephant's legs are bent in the same manner as you bend yours. The result, as shown in TIME [Aug. 15], gives the impression that the worthy animal is ready to go either way at a moment's notice...
...politicians are not supposed to evolve their own ideas but to evolve compromise programs. He thinks legislation should be written by experts, steered by politicians. In the Illinois Senate he introduced only one bill, providing for a legislative council to map the work of the next session. At the moment he is specifically advocating more civil service, "perfecting" the National Labor Relations Board, "birth control" of bills in Congress, giving ex-Presidents seats in the Senate. He also wants to abolish the job he is running for by reapportioning the State's Congressional districts...
...retard its pace. It is notable for restoring Erich von Stroheim (a top-priced director until a combination of extravagant pictures and his own erratic temperament cut short his Hollywood career) to the screen in a more sympathetic role than those he used to play. Good shot: the moment at the dress rehearsal of a prison show when the first member of the cast tries on a woman's dress...
Death last year ended Edith Wharton's work on a novel which might have been her masterpiece. She had written 29 chapters of a book apparently planned to run to about 35 chapters. The story had reached its climax; the characters were at a moment in their careers when they were compelled to make irrevocable decisions. While Mrs. Wharton left notes suggesting how she intended to end the novel, she gave no hint of how she intended to solve its moral and esthetic problems. Last week her literary executor, Gaillard Lapsley,* offered The Buccaneers as a novel complete...