Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hall. It was so cold that middle-aged "Beefeaters" from the Tower and Gentlemen of the King's Guard wore their heaviest cloaks, but the four officers rigid at the corners of the bier stood in their uniforms only, chilled to the marrow. The great throng's moment of deepest emotion came when it was known that Queen Mary and Edward VIII, unannounced, had quietly entered by a side door. Down the mile-long line passed the simple affecting words, "The King and Queen are with...
Apparently startled, Senator Clark muttered that he was "not familiar'' with the matter. In a moment he recovered himself, rallied to his colleague's support. Quickly he rattled off passages from Mr. Balfour's memoirs, from Colonel House's diary, from a letter written by Britain's Wartime Prime Minister David Lloyd George-all indicating that on his visit to the U. S. in the spring of 1917 Secretary Balfour had told President Wilson and Secretary Lansing all about the secret treaties. Furthermore, declared Senator Clark, Secretary Balfour had left with the State Department...
...Perhaps I would have been-who knows?" answered plain Mr. Kipling in one of the rare moments when he permitted himself to be caught off guard. "But one day long ago, in an exhilarated and irresponsible moment. I wrote a little song. Possibly you know...
...Thanks a Million" is one of the better musical shows of the season despite beautiful Dick Powell who threatened to fly away at any moment. No one can deny that he has a voice well worth listening to but he would be better enjoyed if he stopped fluttering his eyelids and flapping his arms...
...that she was able to prompt any one who sang on the stage with her. Her impersonations seemed completely spontaneous, but they were all carefully considered before she gave them their seething, transfigured quality. As Tosca she was so tigerish that every Scarpia who sang with her dreaded the moment when she would spring on him, brandishing the knife. Her Isolde had a nobility so flamingly tense that when it was matched once with Toscanini's conducting a halt had to be called in rehearsal for the other singers to regain their repose. Critics still hold up the Fremstad...