Word: momently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...politics-because I get enough of that and to spare without any appointments-but for the purpose of supplying me with two original jokes against Scotsmen every day of the week. He did it, and that is the reason why the Labor Government was so successful." At that moment, an Englishman, who somehow or other had lost his bearings, remarked: "It must have been a lugubrious job." (Loud laughter...
From this moment, there began a bombardment on his character and his dangerous heterodox leanings, led by Kamenev, Zinoviev, Stalin, Dzerzhinsky and others who did not stop at calling him the "Little Corporal." The gist of this attack was that Trotzky was trying to substitute Trotzkyism for Leninism. It was alleged, according to an official document, that his attacks "had been interpreted by the bourgeoisie and the Social Democrats [Menshevists] as a sign of a split within the Russian Communist Party, and consequently as the disruption of the dictatorship of the proletariat"; that he had "declared war against the very...
...clever comedy, no matter how well acted, does not necessarily draw a capacity audience. "The Full House", however, lived up to its name, and from the moment the curtain was rung up, kept the crowded theatre reverberating with laughter. Everyone expected to laugh, and laugh spontaneously; the house was prepared to clap, and its patrons are not claques, each of the favorite actors as they first appeared. There is an infectious atmosphere about the St. James which positively breeds mirth...
Nothing can now be said of Amy Lowell as a poet or as an artist. It must be left to the critics of another era to do that justice to her work of which the present generation, its judgment clouded by affectionate recollection, is incapable. At the moment, there can be no feeling but a consciousness of universal loss; no coherent appreciation but a record of the passing of a personality which has in death bequeathed an everlasting heritage of truth and strength to the unwritten pages of English literature...
...Crimson scoring began in the seventh when Ford singled with two men on base, both of whom scored, tying up the game. In the next inning. Chauncey got three bases on a long clout and scored on Nordberg's single. A moment later, Captain Jones added three more runs with a long four-ply hit. Jones, Linscott, and Chauncey, with two hits apiece, were the most effective of the Freshmen on the offense...