Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eden handled them with not much more vigor than the tailor's dummy some Europeans uncharitably consider him to be.* The rearming of Helgoland he glossed over as German "peccadillo," adding: "Individual matters of this kind, though they cannot be passed unobserved, should not be raised at the moment"-i. e., not until "Machiavelli-&-soda" has seen what he can do in Berlin...
...pawing a live person. MacLane, onetime Wesleyan footballer, actually worked a cage full of lions while their real trainer stood outside. In some sequences Animal Trainer Frank Phillipps, who has doubled for more cinemactors than any other man in his business, took MacLane's place. Most nerve-wracking moment in the manufacture of Bengal Tiger occurred when MacLane, who had made friends with Bobby, stepped into his cage, pulled its occupant's tail. The tiger turned out to be not Bobby but Satan. He was held off with poles while Actor MacLane wiggled...
...halted the curtsying, caused numerous young women who had not yet curtsied to burst into tears. An elderly lady, leading the rush to cover from the rain, tripped outside Buckingham Palace, sprawled flat, soiled her white gown. A gentleman arriving late stepped out of his limousine at the precise moment when a Buckingham Palace gardener turned on a hose which happened to be pointed at the gentleman, soused...
...good. ... At the present time we have as a requirement for admission the completion of a four-year high-school course or its equivalent. Two of our schools have placed an added requirement, following the requirements very closely of those demanded by Class A medical schools. ... At this moment our colleges, each of them, is in dire need of endowment...
...onetime member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies gave U. S. readers a vivid, thought-provoking picture of the various ways native Sardinians-radicals, innocent bystanders, Fascists-reacted to the bewildering news of Mussolini's march on Rome on Oct. 30, 1922, changing sides at the last moment, heroically jumping before the steam roller as it got under way, or simply waiting to see what was going to happen before they declared their allegiance. A strong liberal, Emilio Lussu had been an officer in the Italian Army during the War, was elected a Deputy from the province of Cagliari...