Word: momently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moment of her birth coincided almost exactly with her father's entrance into public life. He had been a Deichauptmann; that is, he had been responsible for the care of the dykes along the Elbe. In 1847, one year before Maria was born, he was chosen as substitute for a representative of the lower nobility to attend the Estates-General, which that year assembled at Berlin. To Berlin he went. The rest is too well known...
...hours later Baron Hayashi announced, "At my urgent appeal His Royal Highness has consented to remain within his room for several days. The tendon of his left instep has been slightly strained. His Royal Highness has expressed his determination to resume his skating and skiing at the earliest possible moment, since he intends to leave Muerren shortly to visit the League of Nations at Geneva...
...very moment that a war picture, or a western thriller, or a Spanish romance becomes popular, the movie producers rise as one man and imitate such success until the idea has become completely used up. The second in the series usually is not as creditable as the first, the third is terrible, and from then on we stop counting. "Behind the Front" happens to be the second in the line of realistic war pictures, and as such it is reasonably competent. If only we hadn't seen "The Big Parade" first, this review might assume a lighter and happier tone...
Wallace Beery alone is excepted from all this criticism. He was immense. His comically stupid face was never for one moment marred by the slightest ray of intelligence. His ample army pants were held up by a rope around the waist, giving to their lower portions a curious baggy appearance suggestive of small boys in grammar school. He was forever waddling about through the sets on mischief bent, for all the world like a fat sow hunting out choice bits of garbage Without him the picture would be a dud, with him it was able to make this reviewer disgrace...
...moment an actor closes his eyes, hitches up his trousers, and starts gaspeing for words he creates in the mind of his audience a favorable prejudice which will make up for all the sins he may subsequently commit. William Hodge has mastered this sort of stage helplessnoss. He has learned to lie down and let the rest of the cast walk over him in the same passive manner in which Andrew Gump, that great idol of the middle West, obeys the call...