Word: momently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fall out with Mr. Poincaré," said Mr. Lloyd George, " but it was very difficult. Bonar Law found it quite impossible to work with him. But at any rate the two countries were able to work together, and I regret that there should be at this moment any break. It is a misfortune that speeches should be delivered which have the effect of widening the breach instead of bringing us together...
...morra. In this game, two persons wave their hands simultaneously, while a crowd of surrounding gamblers guess, in chorus, at the total number of fingers exposed by the principal players. When twenty lusty Italian workmen shout "Uno! Sei! Tre! Dieci!" at the top of their lungs at the same moment, one can surmise the motives which induced the Government to pass the antigambling law. At the same time, one appreciates how from the morra grew the equally dreaded Camorra, or Black Hand...
...consistently on the forehead instead of on the lips. Though the picture is played in a so-called "society" atmosphere, not a flapper or a bar of jazz is introduced. Could anything be more unorthodox? The strain was too great for the nice, old-fashioned director. At the last moment he rushed in a bandolined beauty (male) for the heroine to marry...
Lord Grey, with his customary bluntness, said that the base could be aimed at only one country?Japan. Although the United States is a great naval power in the Pacific, it could not be supposed for a moment that the Singapore preparations were against that country. He thought it would be better to admit that there was a possibility of war, however remote, with Japan. Even so, "was the expenditure at Singapore really necessary ?" He then made some critical remarks on the naval base and its relation to the Washington Naval Agreements...
...point of wildest merriment in the Scandals is reached when the comedian's right buttock absorbs several inches of bayonet wielded by a jealous Romeo. A moment later the balcony collapses, Juliet and all. The house goes...