Word: momently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...implications were: 1) that the crowd was disorderly; 2) that, through neglect or ingratitude, Nominator Roosevelt had been omitted from the reserved-seat Iist at this, the Brown Derby's crowning moment...
...gang drops bombs on the other from an airplane, filling the theatre with smoke and confusion. The action-of which there is plenty-is largely laid in the beer king's den, a place of small tables, gats, a periscope, and other gangish claptrap. Here, in a moment of solicitous passion, one of the beer king's favorites whispered to a hushed house: "It ull sunds silly of cuss." That was true...
...last came the final rabble of cardinals, marshals, courtiers, to observe the rest of the ceremony: royal breeches and hose, royal shirt by way of the First Valet of the Wardrobe, to the Grand Master of the Wardrobe, to the Dauphin, to the King. "At this crucial moment, while the nightshirt was off and the day-shirt not yet on, one little concession was made to the King's privacy. Two valets held up the King's dressing gown as a screen...
...situation was best described in a political cartoon of the moment: A valet, perched precariously on a window-ledge and peeking in through a lighted window at a damsel within, gestured excitedly to a gallant standing below. Another gallant was striding off down the street, having evidently refused the invitation. The gallant under the window eyed his departing peer. What...
...bankers and the speculators. Clear were the battle-lines. Corporations contended simply that 5½% or 6% is better than 2%. Bankers argued: 1) that the money market will never be stable, settled, with such a staggering amount of money on call, likely to be withdrawn at any moment when the corporations may need it; and 2) that too much money is diverted to speculation, too little to the economic needs of the U. S. Councils of war followed. Bankers considered increasing the charge made for placing the loans, fixing a minimum amount to be lent. Corporations countered by throwing...