Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tycoon, was so affected by the intoxicating words in which Oxonians thanked him for giving their medical school $6,250,000 that he got to his feet and cried out he would give Oxford another $3,750,000. explaining that he did so "on the sudden impulse of the moment." Punch promptly cartooned Nuffield honking a motor horn from which gold pieces pour into the inverted mortarboards of scrambling Oxford dignitaries...
...flush with millions, will travel for a time abroad and ultimately be given another Chinese Army under the Generalissimo. Joy in China at the happy ending of the crisis reached such transports that even that uncompromising teetotaler, "The Christian Marshal" Feng Yu-hsiang, announced as a matter of national moment, "I have drunk a full glass of wine, toasting the deliverance of the Generalissimo...
...murdered. Detective Charles then settles down to drink and work in earnest. His evening reaches its peak when, in a room containing half a dozen dangerous characters and a police aide (Sam Levene), the lights suddenly go off and shooting starts. Insuperably nonchalant Detective Charles utilizes this moment for a quick drink...
...know that Arthur Brisbane was the greatest journalist of his day. ... I know that this nation and the world have lost incalculably in the death of Arthur Brisbane ... but all that I can think of for the moment is that I have lost my friend. ... I grieve for that and realize the loss. ... I grieve inconsolably . . . that the world in which I must spend my few remaining years will hold for me a blank space...
...Wingless Victory (by Maxwell Anderson; Katharine Cornell, producer). The great moment in this play comes when Actress-Manager Cornell, as Princess Oparre from the Celebes, turns on her New England husband, his family and all igth-Century Salem. She reminds them of the goodwill with which she came among them, denounces them for the hypocrisy, humiliation and persecution with which they have repaid her. She declares that she is now turning from the Christ of Forgiveness, having found no mercy among His followers. She reviles her tormentors' pale, cruel faces and pale, spiteful lives. Daughter of a hot-blooded...