Word: momently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which has already been quoted. Adolph, the CRIMSON mascot, jumped to his feet waving the red flag presented to him by E.A. Whitney '17, in the days when CRIMSON diamond supremacy was a national by-word, and the crowd broke forth in a wild demonstration of approval. At this moment, two spectators overwrought by tension and excitement suddenly became unconscious and were helped...
...Cuban republic. But only momentarily; for Gerardo Machado, President of Cuba, moved expeditely from Havana to visit President Coolidge. A Cuban law prohibits the Cuban President from leaving Cuba. Therefore, President Machado, never without a Cuban flag in his pocket, annexed every spot of U. S. soil for the moment during which he passed over it or paused upon it. He could not be accused of leaving Cuba. He took Cuba with him. He even annexed for Cuba, temporarily, a spot in the temporary U. S. White House (No. 15 Dupont Circle...
...Detroit, one Edward Herring, 50, walked near the river to catch a breath of fresh air. He hesitated for a moment in front of the Superior Smoked Fish Co. Down plunged a keg of pickled herrings from a third-story window sill, felled Mr. Herring...
...Garrick Theatre† filled to capacity for the first time this year. Into the home of an all-English country gentleman, George Marden (Dudley Digges), hobbles quaint Mr. Pirn (Erskine Sanford), his memory given to wandering off on appealing but unreliable excursions of second childhood. In an inadvertent moment he mentions the vagaries of one Jacob Tellsworthy, who, unknown to Mr. Pirn, is Mrs. Marden's first husband, believed in all good faith to be irreproachably dead. The prospect of bigamy in the family, even though unintentional, rocks the Mardens to their skeletons...
What time Radcliffe suggests to Harvard that she "formally join Harvard" in anything other than a mutual "nolo contendere" that moment must inaugurate catastrophe, Radcliffe may mix her metaphors, "when properly endowed"; she may mix her dramatics, for, as has been well said, few are thus disturbed. She must not mix her affairs with those of Harvard. The blushes of Emerson and Agassiz daily reprove those careless female tortoises, to keep the figure, who invade the buildings which bear their names...