Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under his arm and accompanied by the Duke of York, took a train at Euston Station for Balmoral, the Royal Scottish Seat, where he will shoot. To the astonishment of his Scottish deerstalking guide who found a fine stag for His Majesty this week, the King at the crucial moment dropped his gun, whipped out his new German miniature camera, snapped the stag...
Still busy according to latest despatches was the Ambassador of the Republic of Chile, Dean of the Diplomatic Corps. Telegraphed he to the Council of the League of Nations in Geneva: "The attack which is being carried out at this moment with dynamite, shrapnel and gasoline gives an infernal aspect to this operation of war. An armistice of 24 hours may mean the lives of the women and children. I beg His Excellency the Spanish Foreign Minister to have these women and children who in the Alcázar are locked on the brink of Death placed in the care...
...hundred years from today the record will be read. With humility but with hope we look forward to that moment. May it then be manifest to all that the universities of this country have led the way to new light, and may the nation give thanks that Harvard was founded...
...ceremony was well under way, a fresh torrent of rain descended on the Yard. Still confident in his meteorologist, President Conant kept stolidly on. A concerned alumnus broke through Secret Service men to President Roosevelt, whose velvet chair had become sodden, offered an umbrella which Mr. Roosevelt smilingly declined. Moment later birdlike Jerome Davis Greene, member of the Harvard Corporation and Director of arrangements for the Tercentenary, bustled up anxiously with a gold-headed umbrella. The President again declined, turned to watch Rome's Professor Corrado Gini break a well-publicized rule of the day by pulling a small...
...favors of a friendly expatriate named Edith Cortright (Mary Astor) when Kurt's mother told Fran why the old wives of young husbands are invariably miserable. From the automatic habit of more than 20 years Sam resumed the job of taking care of Fran, rebelled at the last moment, went back to Mrs. Cortright...