Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Trotskyism" until he had been kicked out and it became Stalinism. Trotsky urged regimentation oi the Russian peasantry by the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, the peasants to be uprooted from their little holdings and forced onto vast collective farms with tractor; replacing horses and Moscow able at any moment to shut off the gasoline if the peasants got obstreperous. That too was "Trotskyism," bitterly denounced by Stalin until, Trotsky having been ousted, it became and is today Stalinism...
...shyness" notable in all sons of King George V. A Dutch Cabinet Minister passed around chocolates, and these the Dutch and German guests beamishly consumed. The British would not eat in a Dutch church, as "it isn't done in England," and the shyness of Kent became each moment more excruciating...
...Serene Highness" was the inferior German title of Prince Bernhard up to the bridal moment. The Dutch pastor, having performed the marriage with the usual Dutch exchange of rings, remarked to the new Prince Consort of The Netherlands, "I may now address you as Your Royal Highness." Amid cheers which made the whole city of The Hague bedlam, the wedding procession wound its way amid Dutch ohs and ahs at the brilliant cavalcade. Then, after luncheon at the Royal Palace, the Prince Consort & Crown Princess managed the impossible. With the connivance of the world press, the newlyweds, ostensibly bound...
...Princess Juliana, she and her bridegroom would be the only persons married in The Netherlands on their wedding day. The attention of Her Majesty's Government was then drawn to that buxom coincidence, the Dutch female who was born on the same day and at approximately the same moment as H. R. H. Juliana, the honest wench Petronella van der Meer...
...idea of the Act is to encourage rearrangement of power properties in the best interests of the local population. Toward this end two big New England holding companies asked the Securities & Exchange Commission last week to approve a swap of various Massachusetts gas and electric properties. Of no national moment in itself, the deal was the first attempted under the Utility Act, may mark the start of a general reshuffling among the less "demonstrably useful" companies...