Word: momently
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...terror is sometimes suggested to the spectator, not only by word and mimicry, but by the very object of his terror, for instance, the ghost, or some other object of hallucination. The object of the dramatist here is clear; in order that the spectator may have at a given moment nearly the same experience as the acting character, it is necessary that he see the same thing...
Looking over their shoulders, Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Minister of Britain, waved triumphantly to the cheering crowd. And Premier Mussolini, who had signed for Italy to indicate that she would join England in guaranteeing the peace of the Rhineland, appeared at the window for a moment...
...fortune and capital." This phrase, is interpreted as urging that interest payments be suspended on all French Government securities and the sums thus realized used to recoup France financially. It is thought that a levy on interest may succeed as being more "orthodox" than one on capital. For the moment M. Caillaux has pledged himself to the measure "as a member of the Radical Party, though not necessarily as Finance Minister." He appears to have kept the conference from jumping on his neck and that of the shaky Painlevé Government without actually committing himself to anything very definitely...
When the World Series splashed to its rain-streaked, dramatic finish on Forbes Field, Pittsburgh, a handful of distinguished foreigners, with rain spurting in gentle rivers from the brims of their felt hats, left the field and proceeded to their hotels having learnt for the moment enough of how things are done in the U. S. They were in Pittsburgh with exactly the opposite idea-to show the U. S. how certain things are done in Europe. They had come to attend the opening of the Carnegie International Exhibition...
...iron bar over arms, calf and neck. Sandow copied him. Next Samson burst a wire cable wound around his chest. Sandow burst its fellow. Samson snapped a chain on the muscles of his arm. The chain was too small for Sandow. He called for his big dumbbell. The greatest moment of his life had come...