Word: momently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...election was exciting. The result was in doubt until the last moment. Churchill swept the district with automobiles to carry lazy voters to the polls. He seemed to be leading. A crowd of 20,000 gathered in front of Caxton Hall, where the count was in progress, and the Laborites sang The Red Flag and The Internationale. At 12:30 that night newspapers got out editions stating that Churchill...
...bearded, turbaned Moslem ecclesiastic arose with dignity and intense conviction. "When that moment comes," he cried, "the men will become women...
...this moment Hackett seems to have been content to write the meaning of Shakespeare's regicide, fumbling with his destiny in a large, sprawling handwriting. When he finally blazes forth he telegraphs. It is Shakespeare done in the towering manner of the old school, in which the star is slow to anger, but a hellion when roused. It is a wellrounded, extremely solid conception, wherein Hackett lets his audience warm up gradually, like a motor. He has made of Macbeth a statuesque memorial to the darkling souls of usurpers the world over...
...moment approached for the arrival of President Eliot and his distinguished train, the crowd which packed the hall became hushed. There were several minutes of tense, expectant silence, then the orchestra in the narrow balcony over the platform began the soft notes of the entering march...
When politicians turn for a moment from investigations and log-rolling activities to less congenial employment the result is usually highly interesting. And when the discussion wanders to the field of literature it is as frequently highly entertaining. The debate on the Rabenold "Clean Book" bill at Albany has proved no exception to the rule. Rabalais, Thomas Paine, and "Uncle Tom's Cabin" have been tossed about in a manner quite disrespectful to "classics." And lost in the maze of pleasant literary reminiscences the heat of debate be dissipated, a sulphurous ring of vituperative phrases has been struck. "This amendment...