Word: momently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been recently achieved up Pike's Peak. . . . No, Sir . . . not on your life. I seem to have heard also of publicity loving individuals who like to dance a marathon from Worcester to Boston, Mass, and also . . . what about those others who, perhaps on the spur of the moment endeavour to spend the rest of their lives on the top of a flagpole. DANIEL J. NEAL Late of London, England Boston, Mass...
...good old Yankee word "gumption." He smiled at me indulgently. "Well," he said, "you can't teach those." The response was obvious: "Does West Point training aid in developing successful Army officers, and what apart from technical knowledge and honesty, makes for success in that profession?" He meditated a moment, and then replied: "I see your point." And he agreed with me that while a good military school or staff college cannot guarantee the quantity production of Napoleons and Lees, it can and does produce competent officers of high professional spirit. I went on to say that even what...
...bank. He filled out these drafts for large, round figures, presented them to the Chase bank for Chase certification. Inasmuch as a certified check has always been considered the closest possible relative to actual coin of the realm, the certification of these drafts was a matter of no small moment. But the Chase cashier did not hesitate, for only the day before the Chase bank had received from six other Manhattan banks instructions to hold for the Bank of Telluride credits amounting to $500,000. The six Manhattan banks, in turn, had received wires from their six Denver correspondents asking...
Over the western portal had emerged a figure, austere, terrifying in its solemnity. On its hoary head glittered a golden crown, over its shoulders shone a brilliant red chasuble. A long, patriarchal beard fluttered in the wind. For a moment the Figure was silent, then bellowed: I perceyve here in my majeste How that all creatures be to me unkynde, Lyvynge without drede in worldely prosperyte; Of ghostly syght the people be so blynde, Drowned in synne they know me not for theyr God; In worldely ryches is all theyr mynde...
Half Marriage (RKO). After several reels of almost continuous kissing, Olive Borden is faced with a moment when the bad fellow who has been trying to get her away from her husband chases her up to the roof, makes a pass at her, falls over the edge, is killed. She wants to take the blame, and her husband wants to take the blame. The worst of it is that she has to explain to her father, who is a billionaire, that she is married. She had kept this a secret all the time and lived in her own house. Only...