Word: momently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...uneventful day when only six people are killed in automobile accidents; but when six convicts are sentenced to death in Illinois for the murder of one man it is a historic moment...
Whether or not Governor William W. ("Plain Bill") Brandon of Alabama had "openers"* will never be known, for at that particular moment last week a deputy sheriff and raiding party rudely interrupted the gubernatorial poker game at McQueen's Camp near Magnolia Springs, Ala. Behind the Governor's chair the intruders found a half case of whiskey, and in the room he occupied with several friends there was a suitcase which clinked and gurgled mischievously. In all, 13 quarts of mellow liquor were confiscated. The Governor and his eight companions were arrested, appearing voluntarily at jail...
...this moment-any moment-a man, woman or child is almost certainly being torn to pieces and gulped down by one or more wild animals in Asia. Accurate statistics are available only for India. Last week a bored clerk at the Colonial Office released the news that wild animals killed 1,974 humans in India last year; and that the humans retaliated by killing at least 21,605 wild animals for whose destruction rewards were officially paid. Snakes crushed or killed with poisoned fangs 19, 308 humans; and rewards were paid for the killing of 47,106 snakes...
...Does any one beholding this woman sitting there in her stiff uniform of discretion . . . look into her lustreless-looking eyes and believe for a moment that those eyes are looking through anything but a mask...
...while the scenario promises to translate into film the same pic turesque fierceness. At one moment, it achieves a truly inspired version of the play's own irony; the marines march off to their first baptism of hellfire; Charmaine (Dolores Del Rio) waves good-bye to her Captain Flagg, not with the tricolor of France nor the stars and stripes of the U. S., but with the bedclothes. After this highpoint (which, to be frank seems to have been reached by accident) the scenario settles down some banal sob hokum about ' mother's boy," equally unfortunate comic...