Word: momently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then, though the moment whispered "Caution! You're on good behavior!" the evil genius of the French communists urged "Up and at 'em!" Upon the first appearance of a real, live Soviet ambassador, the streets of Paris rang with cries of "Vivent Ies soviets!" No wonder French Republicans repeat the Arab fable of the camel which, when granted leave to stick his head inside the hut to shield it from the cold, grew insolent and dispossessed the owner altogether...
...meet the Yale riders this evening at 8 o'clock in the Commonwealth Armory in Boston. The Yale team, which the University had expected to meet on January 10, arranged to come to Boston at the-present time to play the 101st Field Artillery poloists, and at the last moment decided to meet the Crimson players tonight for the second time this year. This change in the plans of the two teams was made necessary by the refusal of the Yale Athletic Association to permit the Eli polo team to make more than one trip to Boston...
...frequented its portals or had arrived there as a dinner guest. In those days, he had been welcomed by a different host- a taller man of eloquent tongue, equally slender, with face even more austere, with clear-some said cold- eyes. The entering guest paused only a moment on the threshold. Then Bernard M. Baruch, Chairman of the one-time War Industries Board, close friend of Woodrow Wilson, entered to dine with Calvin Coolidge and presumably to discuss farm problems...
...assistance. Football terms are the best description, for we rarely gained ten yards in four struggles. After about an hour of that discouraging work, we heard a lot of noise behind, and down the road came a Ford coupe--nothing daunted and with the greatest ease. At that moment my friend and I were feeling about our lowest, and we were strongly reminded that the days of Sir Philip Sidney are not over, for out of that very Ford stepped two Harvard undergraduates (both feeling fine!) and offered assistance. We thanked them, but refused, as we had help, and they...
...soldiers who died in it, the 13,000,000 civilians who perished because of it, the 5,000,000 widows who survive it, the 9,000,000 orphans bereft through it, the 10,000,000 refugees who fled destitute before it," the passionate Baptist orator asseverated that "at any moment some wild-eyed militarist across the Pacific ... or some hysterical session of the Senate here may drop a spark into that powder barrel" which would disastrously involve "our sons, our daughters, our business, our security...