Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happened to many a man before now to find himself beginning to fall in love with another man's wife. That is the moment of critical decision and the right decision is that they should cease to meet before the passion is so developed as to create an agonizing conflict between love and duty. That decision has often been taken by men of honor. And when the power of personal attraction is reinforced by the glamor of the throne, the moral obligation is more urgent for that reason. "Thirdly, let us remember that any kind of love which...
...Simpson from the moment King George V died, began to "help" infatuated King Edward VIII, according to her lights. She helped him to spend thousands of guineas royally, imperially, wildly; and she helped him to pinch pennies, convincing His Majesty that in housekeeping she is most economical. Together they cruised the Balkans in one of the world's costliest yachts, they ransacked Carrier's in Paris for diadems, in October they picked out the ermine skins recently made up in London for Mrs. Simpson's Christmas (TIME, Dec. 28). Simultaneously she caught His Majesty's servants...
...trial in Vicksburg last week the sheriff and deputy were witnesses for both prosecution and defense. They testified that the defendant had done his killing "in an insane moment brought about by a fit of passion." After deliberating six minutes, the jury acquitted Louis Mize...
...invitation, providing Mrs. Simpson's famed Aunt Bessie can accompany her as chaperon. One of the Lord-in-Waiting's last statements on his word of honor was, "Gentlemen, it is really true that Mrs. Simpson does not know where her aunt is at the moment...
...news as sophisticated children might well do, the small Craigs react like little Peppers. They decide the situation demands action. Borrowing fare from their nurse, they embark for New York, arrive when Judson Craig (Charles Winninger) is sitting down to lunch with his inamorata, Precious (Binnie Barnes). From the moment when the three little Craig girls dash into a hotel dining room to embarrass their father with cries of "Daddy," his romance is doomed. When Judson Craig's young assistant agrees that Precious and her mother (Alice Brady) are a mercenary pair, Joan Craig falls in love with...