Word: momently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...locomotive draped in black drew the funeral train to London and, as it was desired to avoid the assembly of large crowds until the state funeral next day, the very station at which the train would arrive was kept secret up to the last moment. Eventually the locomotive thundered into King's Cross, and although all haste was made in transferring the coffin to the Royal Chapel of St. James's Palace, where the body was to rest over night, a crowd of some 1,500 persons gathered before the auto-hearse before the royal motors could be got under...
...French Foreign Office. Long after his train drew in, the little man remained seated in his compartment. When the crowd of travelers had quite cleared away, he stepped nimbly forth and was whirled away to a secret conference with M. Herriot and M. Briand, who were engaged at the moment chiefly in deciding which, if either of them, should be the next Premier of France (see FRANCE, p. 11.) The shabby, bright-eyed stranger who could command an audience with these famed statesmen at such an hour was none other than M. Georg Tchitcherin, famed political stormy petrel and Foreign...
Throughout the week, Tuan Chi-Jui, head of the impotent Peking Government of China, remained ready to flee from his capital at any moment should Super-Tuchun Feng avail himself of the upset to Chang's power and decide to take personal control of Peking instead of merely dominating it. Feng, however, contented himself with adding a few divisions to the garrison which he maintains at Peking; and called upon Chang to retire to private life, threatening to wipe out his remaining forces...
...been forced, by the unwelcome attention of pressmen, to go into a sentineled retirement before this game. On and on he raced, through pools of shadow that spotted the field, swaying past poised tacklers; and the roar of the prodigious hippodrome rose to delirium, for it seemed for a moment that he might get away, might do the thing that was half-expected of him and end his 20th game with a touchdown. But a covey of runners brushed down on him, bore him out of bounds before he had run 43 yards. The 85,000 went home, content. They...
...Evreinov has emphasized a very subtle and at times tantalizing technique. While the play supposedly takes place in Russia actually it takes place somewhere on the border land between reality and unreality. It is a will-o'-the wisp sort of a play eluding our grasp just at the moment we attempt to put our finger on it. It is like the moon on a mackerel-sky with the white clouds rushing over it, now hiding it completely, now showing it to us through a transparent wraith-like veil, now and then revealing it to us in its full opalescent...