Word: moment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Medical Center. Three days before the President had stopped in heavy rain at Wilmington, Del. to help dedicate a monument by Sculptor Carl Milles to the settling there, three centuries ago, of the first Swedes and Finns in America, but the tall Crown Prince, painfully stricken at the last moment by a kidney stone, had to let his third son,' dark, handsome, fast driving* Prince Bertil, 26, present the monument to the President. At the hospital, however, the President chatted for a half-hour with the Crown Prince, invited Crown Princess Louise to Hyde Park for Saturday luncheon. There...
Intended in part as a tribute to London's late great Dr. Thomas John Barnardo, who started his famed trade schools for orphans in 1867, Lord Jeff picks up the history of young Geoffrey Braemer (Bartholomew) at the moment when he is caught acting as a blind for two daring jewel thieves who have made themselves his guardians. Russell-Cotes School, to which Geoffrey is remanded in lieu of the reformatory, is a naval training institution which seems to be a model of its kind, with good-hearted Herbert Mundin to teach the boys sailors' knots and coach...
...have them. Conspicuous was the class of '28, dressed as Snow White (9-year-old Class Baby Barbara Chase) and the 200 Dwarfs, because it carried no anti-Roosevelt placards. The class of '18, originally planning to play John Barleycorn in barrels, at the last moment added top hats and spats and called themselves Economic Royalists. A HARVARD MAN, said one of their signs, DID THIS TO US. Not to be outdone by their elders, Harvard's graduating seniors marched into the stadium chanting: "Breadline, here we come...
With orders to buy 50, 100, 200, 500 shares of leading industrial stocks, trading in the first hour whopped up to 250,000 shares. Last fall in an optimistic moment, the Exchange devised a system of FLASH quotations for use whenever the ticker got five minutes behind. Last week it had a chance to use it for the first time. FLASH-X (U. S. Steel) 49⅞. FLASH-A (Anaconda Copper) 28. FLASH-T (American Tel & Tel) 140½. When the clay's closing bell bonged, brokers had enjoyed the first million-share day since May, Dow-Jones industrial...
...pushing Melachrinos, Rube and Mac had first-name friendships in most of the nation's tobacco stores. Dealers were told that the new cigaret was Rube and Mac's baby and if they valued the friendship they would help. Dealers were delighted to help because at the moment they were nursing a grudge against the "Big Four," whose prices (and dealer profit margins) in 1933 were at new lows in a bitter price battle with the ten-cent brands...