Word: momently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bring much more. Why did a 61½% -carat stone of such perfection go so cheap? Attention was distracted from this interesting question for a time by the coincidence that Princess Therese Aga Khan, wife of the Aga Khan III, died in a Paris hospital almost at the moment when her husband was bidding at Christie's. But why did the "Golden Dawn" go under the hammer at only ?4,950 ($24,057)? The price of diamonds has long been relative not to their actual rarity but to the artificial scarcity created by the South African Diamond Trust, often...
Mogul v. Cadet. At the moment, the "Presidency" of China is a matter of insignificance in a land so torn by anarchy that only the military are of account. Last week the Pekingese War Lord Chang Tso-lin, temperamentally a cruel, picturesque, luxurious "Great Mogul" began his expected offensive against the Cantonese (TIME, Dec. 6), by issuing a statement shrewdly designed to win Occidental sympathy: "I am fighting not only in behalf of China, but in behalf of the World. ... The menace of Bolshevism is a world menace and the Cantonese are Bolsheviks. . . . Whether I win or lose is personally...
...just the moment for such an exhibition. Of recent weeks the Manhattan press had been full of controversy over the desirability, from the standpoints of health, traffic, economics and art, of steepling and peopling further that rock-bottomed little island upon which whole new cities have been superimposed annually for a decade. The Chicago press, after months of extravagant paeans about Chicago's towering new hotels, newspaper cathedrals and dizzy spires for housing jewelers, oil men, furniture merchants, athletes, chicle-venders, and to support a Methodist cross, had not yet quieted down sufficiently to overhear the murmurs of reaction...
...continued to offer his humorous wares to those who cared to seek him out. And in increasing numbers readers of the World did begin to seek him out and his fame has now so expanded that the appearance of his first book is a matter of some considerable moment in the field of humorous literature...
...buttons to prohibition. He writes Nat Luxenberg and Bros, deeply offended because they failed to invite him to their sale. He contributes a scholarly monograph on the mashing situation in New York. He writes thrillingly of "The Unique Hold-Up of a Taximan's Pants." And never for a moment is he serious, even inadvertently. He sometimes fails also to be funny, but not for lack of trying. It is that straining for effect that is Mr. Sullivan's chief fault. We are led to feel that the author is trying very, very hard to make us laugh...