Word: momently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other. My meaning, as you may gather, is that statements of the kind praised by you derive power only from the person by whom or the circumstance in which they are uttered. Example-"Too proud to fight." Had that not been attributed to Wilson at just one critical moment in our history it would have had no more power than any other group of four words. I admire Prime Minister Baldwin for his homespun virtues, and I rejoice at his steady political good luck-but I consider him a weak, not a powerful, speaker. That this is not set down...
...wildly assorted parties to a total of 238. Into the "ayes" lobby filed 205 members, equally assorted. From the gallery looked down in consternation the impotent Bishops. Their three-to-one victory in the Lords had turned to a bitter four-to-five defeat in the Commons. . . . For a moment the vote's shattering impact seemed lost upon 77-year-old Randall Thomas Davidson, Primate of All England, Archbishop of Canterbury. Then great tears gushed from his eyes, sobs issued from his throat. Slowly he was led away by the Right Honorable and Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, Primate...
What could be more final than that? Nothing in the world, thought the open-mouthed Committee. That is, nothing could be more final for the moment. The Coolidge intention was clear enough. In the four months since the President first shut his door it had been pried wide again. Now he had shut it again. He chose not to lock it. He chose not to anticipate contingencies or to answer his own question: "Who could beat Al Smith if I didn...
...Salle Builler. Soon police swarmed 'round this innocuous auditorium. When the meeting came to order, its chairman smilingly gestured at empty air and introduced "Our honored leader." A voice was heard. Although sepulchral, it was unmistakably the voice of M. Daudet. Policemen cocked their ears a moment, then strolled disgustedly away. They could not arrest the loudspeaker. M. Daudet was at Brussels, 192 miles away, cheerfully addressing a radio microphone...
...stage on which a girl was nodding and laughing and stooping to pick up flowers. The enthusiasm that greets an opera singer's debut is sometimes the lightest, the most sudden, the most exciting that any artist can ever achieve. Dorothy Speare, last week in Washington, was enjoying a moment that she must always remember for its exquisite gaiety, thrown to her like a bouquet...