Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thence by and by to the Yard where I did tarry for a moment to watch the noon stokes of the Memorial Church bell and so immediately to the Large Room at the Foogg where I did hear Professor Chase conclude the first half of the history of art with a lecture on Roman Sculpture. And it did make me sad at heart that the Italians don't spend more time reviving their artistic tradition and less chasing innocent, water-soaked Ethiopians...
...precise moment that the President held the fateful slip of paper in his hands, his annual budget message was being droned aloud by Reading Clerks in Congress (see p. 11). No longer, however, did the figures of that budget total up as they had totaled when he gave it a last pat of approval and dispatched it to the Capitol. The Supreme Court's 6-to-3 decision had rendered the $547,000,000 worth of processing taxes, on which the President had counted, nothing more than a row of nine ciphers. Because no one yet knew how many...
...this message on the State of the Union [a derisive roar from Republicans'] than by repeating the words of a wise philosopher* at whose feet I sat many, many years ago: " 'The human race now passes through one of its great crises. However memory brings back this moment to your minds, let it be able to say to you: That was a great moment. It was the beginning of a new era. . . . This world in its crisis called for volunteers, for men of faith in life, of patience in service, of charity and of insight. I responded...
...have a very large family group to see the new year in. At n 145 we were sitting in my husband's study, the Oval Room, and we turned on the radio so as to be sure of the exact moment. A traditional New Year's eggnog was passed around. As the clock struck 12 we all stood up and over the radio floated "Old Lang Syne," as my husband proposed the first toast, which is always "To the United States...
...section budget, and Editor Munger has expanded, hired a battery of specialists. In his year-end review Editor Munger had a stock-market chart for 1935 with major movements explained by cartoons of Chief Justice Hughes, the Blue Eagle exploding, Haile Selassie with shield and spear, etc. Most exciting moment in Editor Munger's journalistic career occurred in 1934 when his appendix burst while he was writing the story of a proxy fight to oust Montgomery Ward's Sewell Lee Avery...