Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...touring car one afternoon to drive to Mt. Vernon. The Indians came bearing gifts, a blanket for the Great White Father, a ring for the Great White Mother. Solemnly they filed past the Father's car shaking his hand until the turn came of Chief Kolchavteewah. For a moment, to Franklin Roosevelt's surprise, it looked as if Kolchavteewah was going to kiss the Presidential hand, but the Redman's lips never actually touched the Roosevelt flesh. Following an old Indian custom, he made a secret sign. Then the tribesmen did a buffalo dance on the lawn...
...excruciating irony for M. Blum lay in the fact that a Socialist France had emerged at the precise moment of Fascist
...friends will succeed in overcoming it. The organization of peace and of the League of Nations is based on the fundamental condition that there is agreement between the British and French democracies. What could be more tragic than if Britain were to fail the great cause precisely at the moment when France is preparing to support it to the best of her ability...
...writes about him with a malice-sharpened pen. He accuses Moore of continual tarradiddles ("He was all self and yet had so little self that he would destroy his reputation, or that of some friend, to make his audience believe that the story running in his head at the moment had happened, had only just happened"). In appearance Moore was "insinuating, up-flowing, circulative, curvicular, pop-eyed ... a man carved out of a turnip, looking out of astonished eyes." He was preoccupied with women almost to "madness." In his pursuit of them he sometimes queered himself by saying the wrong...
This situation has developed with the depression. The tutorial system was instituted during the flush '20's when money flowed freely and waste was permissible. High calibre men were hired in the enthusiasm of the moment. Now the picture has changed with the lean years, and Harvard cannot easily support such an expensive educational plant. Shifts in fields of concentration have only complicated matters...