Word: momently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...principals, each with two seconds, arrived simultaneously at the barracks near Belvedere Palace in the drenching rain at daylight. There were few formalities. The seconds conferred for a moment, examined and loaded two long dueling pistols and stepped off the distance of 15 paces...
...Rome, last week, the Pope, passing through the Basilica of St. Peter, heard a confused disorder down a twilit aisle, turned his face to look and, seeing nothing, passed on. A young prelate who had been sitting in that aisle was at the moment being led off to confinement between two Vatican gendarmes. Hearing the Pope's step he had sprung upon a chair, burst into a sacrilegious harrangue. The clever gendarmes did not attempt to eject him. Instead, they attracted his attention by making funny faces until the Pope had gone by. Then they arrested him. The unknown...
Four venturies unroll to provide a political pantomine of the moment. Spain has asked the Government of Mexico for the bones of Hernando Cortex. The conqueror of Peru and Mexico, arch-slave driver, arch-adventurer, first buried near Seville, was removed later, according to a wish he had expressed, across the Atlantic. He was laid near the scenes of his crassest cruelty; and has lain there until history and romance have bleached his fame, torn off the invincible armor, and have feigned, at least, to see "stout Cortez", "silent, upon a peak in Darien...
...been the enthusiastic journalists of Buffalo was seen last week when the Courier and the Express amalgamated, with the announcement: "The Courier and Express believes in Buffalo and shares with others the vision of 'A Million City' in a relatively few years. . . . There can be no transaction of greater moment to the people than a transaction like this, which touches the whole people from an angle particularly personal to them...
MANTRAP?Sinclair Lewis?Harcourt, Brace ($2). For the moment laying aside the loaded knouts with which he has scourged Main Street, Babbitt and the medical profession, Castigator Lewis now swings a cutting quirt upon upholders of "the most blatant of all American myths," namely, Roughing It Like a He-Man in the North Woods. The chief culprit is round, thick, heartily self-satisfied E. Wesson Woodbury, village fatboy grown up to hosiery sales-manager, who backslaps his tired little lawyer-friend Ralph Prescott into taking a canoe trip to Mantrap Landing, upper Canada, and then bully-rags...