Word: momently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...birth withered her voice. By the time he has grown up, she is keeping geese and drinking gin in a smelly old shack. She hates him for her obscurity, impedes his business success and tries to muddle his marriage. Then he is charged with murder and at the last moment mother love conquers all. Louise Dresser gives an exceptionally good performance in another one you will probably like...
Near Durham, Bishop Welldon, Dean of Durham Cathedral, was roughly handled when he attended a miners' fete. Apparently, the miners resented his trying to give both sides to the dispute; for, the moment his presence was noticed, horny hands seized him and raucous voices yelled: "Throw him in the river." The 77-year-old begaitered and silk-hatted gentleman was rushed toward the river. Cooler heads, however, came to his rescue, after which the Bishop merely commented: "I lost my new hat and umbrella...
...last moment the miners, who had previously declined to meet the owners, agreed to do so. This meeting and the publication of the finding of the Government's Court of inquiry remained the only portents of a peaceful issue of the dispute. The King, from Buckingham Palace, asked for the fullest information concerning the crisis...
...have been a coincidence, but the fact remained, plain and evident, that from the moment Marshal Pétain took over supreme command of the French armies in Morocco, the war with the rebellious Riffians (TIME, May 11 et seq.) took on a more favorable aspect for the French...
...then dawdled, flapped his serve like a chef turning a meatball, made clownish errors so that Kinsey won the third and fourth sets, 6-2, 6-3. In the fifth set, with Kinsey leading at 5-2 and the gallery becoming demoniac, he decided that his moment had come...