Word: momently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus all hung for a moment upon Toppie. When she retired to a convent to end her days in ghostly communion with her dead disloyal Owen, Giles came to himself, crossed the Channel, was changed from Old Dog Tray into the Fairy Prince...
Evacuation. The last exchange of letters between French, Belgians and Germans was of considerable import ance. In order to allow the Germans to meet their Opposition with concrete advantages obtained from the Conference, MM. Herriot, Theunis and Hymans wrote to Chancelor Marx: "At the moment approaching the close of the London Conference, which marks an important effort to establish a regime of international concord, the French and Belgian governments, desirous of giving immediate and spontaneous proof of their will to peace and their confidence in the engagements freely entered into, decide that they will order, on the day following...
...national efforts, from 1917 to 1921, the peoples of the world have been educated to understand the scope of our national demand. The moment England by threats had secured Irish sig natures to her so-called treaty, the organs of English propaganda through out the world were concentrated on making it appear that our national demand was conceded and Irish national aspirations were fully satisfied...
...these things did not interest the producers (quite properly). They were forced for reasons of dramatic necessity to stress the wickedness of the young lady (Norma Shearer) before she reached the purifying atmosphere of loneliness. Indeed, if her mother's ghost had not walked at just the right moment, she might have run off with a married man. Instead, her father whisked her away to the open spaces, where a heartily disapproving young engineer (Jack Holt) went to her rescue down the rapids. The opening phases of the film are struck off with the old rubber stamp. There...
...planets are at opposite sides of their orbits. These approaches, such as the present, occur every 26 months or so, but there is a variation of some 2 million miles in the nearness depending on what part of their eliptical orbits the two planets may be at the moment of juxtaposition. When the two planets are "in opposition," as this is called, in last August the very best opportunity for observation is offered, although at that time only the south pole of Mars can be seen...