Word: momently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...psychological moment it was only necessary to burst in upon Zaniboni, and to cause the arrest of Capello at Turin, whither he had fled. The police specifically charged General Capello with being the liaison officer between antiFascists in Italy and antiFascists in France. The latter group, it was said, had raised 150,000 lire ($7,500.00) as a "Liberty Loan" to be spent in causing the death of Mussolini and the fall of Fascism...
...opening evening the audience was obviously bewildered. It seemed to expect that at any moment the play would suddenly become Seventeen with an English accent. Such development did not take place, but the audience laughed at the wrong time just the same. Scarcely in the memory of the staunchest theatregoer has there been such a flagrant example of ill manners and incomprehensible stupidity on the part of men and women who marry and go through the other forms of presumably intelligent adulthood...
...service that followed differed in no particular from a Roman High-Mass except that it was sung in English. At the moment when the bread and wine were consecrated, a gong rang and the kneeling congregation intoned "Blessed, praised and adored forevermore be Jesus Christ on his throne of glory." Every session of the congress began with an "Ave Maria." The favorite hymn was one ending with the refrain, "Hail, Mary, full of grace." Rosaries, crucifixes and sacred images were offered for sale to the members. During the three days of sessions a number of eminent churchmen spoke, among them...
What more fit subject for comedy than an impromptu encounter between the goody and the hapless student at some compromising moment? For red-blooded action with thrills and hair-breadth escapes, there are the traffic terrors of the Square. Suspense and tragedy could both be embodied in a visit to University Hall. For human interest, what more moving than a close-up of the daily organ-grinder? And as for mystery, the movie might make a real contribution to the world's knowledge by revealing the ways and means, of Max Keezer and those cherubs of doubtful extraction who have...
...seats can be disposed of at the record price of $135,000, paid for a membership sold a fortnight ago. This would give the Exchange $3,375,000 new working capital; a sum which the Governors probably feel they would have difficulty in realizing at a moment less opportune than the present...