Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...saltiest sailor aboard, Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, chose this moment to admit that he had never been properly initiated. He confessed that in 1898, when he first crossed the line as a midshipman on the U.S.S. Oregon, he had bought off the shellbacks with a keg of beer - a custom then permitted on naval vessels...
...Minaki Special bore straight down the main line. On No. 4, Engineer Gibson and Fireman Hazen Lawrie saw its headlight. They waited a moment, thinking it would stop and go into the siding, as it was supposed to do. But it sped past the switch. As they jumped, they heard the shriek of brakes...
...short, fashion was up to its old tricks-peddling, as Oscar Wilde observed, "that by which the fantastic becomes for a moment universal...
This bleakly beautiful actuality is so valuable to the movie that the writing (by Ben Hecht and Charles Lederer), the direction (by Henry Hathaway) and the playing all take their measure against it. With hardly a moment's exception, they measure up. Particularly good are the performances of Taylor Holmes as a crooked lawyer, and of Victor Mature, who apparently needed nothing all this time but the right kind of role. For once...
...special speakers' stand which, when a button was pressed, threw up a sheet of armored steel. Says Agent Reilly: "I lived in horror of the day an Agent would accidentally press the remote control button and F.D.R. would find himself talking to a piece of steel where a moment before he had been addressing thousands of people. He wouldn't have been amused; there were very few things F.D.R. enjoyed more than talking to a large crowd...