Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...homely wisdom: "Most of those pretty faces are but masks for tainted bodies. The prostitute is both victim and enticer and her life is full of lies. . . . [But] if you believe what she says, then the story stands and the fact that she is a prostitute is of no moment...
...dollars to get our equipment from large supply houses, so we consulted God." The Groupers had 20 caddies carry tables for nothing from the town hall to the mess tent. "Guid ance," said Grouper Harriman. "That's what made me walk on the golf course just at that moment." The man in charge of the camp canteen, one James Mariano who claimed he had been a "drunk, pick pocket and strong-arm man," told an Assembly audience that "the canteen is directed by the Holy Spirit. We have no cashier. You simply go in and take what you want...
...What reason have. I to think another similar experience is not just ahead of me, and the Grim Reaper at this moment standing ready to strike? Such uncertainty is maddening, and has rendered me unfit to do any work for which I was trained...
...Bureau wishes to succeed in its undertakings, it is of course through the early cooperation of the alumni, many of whom, and in despite of the Bureau, will probably arrive in Cambridge at the last moment to become lost and except for their beards one with the incoming Freshmen...
...generally speaking the candidates, even though at the moment they may not be considered exceptionally "big" men politically, have enough ability, honesty, intelligence, and common-sense to recommend themselves to most observers. Such are the fundamental prerequisites of Republican nominees today. In the following five months the nominees--whoever he may be--will have apparently and probably actually grown in stature, as the history of any past minority candidate will tell us. The heat of battle is not the only way in which a man is tempered and defined to all voters; what the voter will learn, through clever propaganda...