Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Desperately looking back to his prison days, he shouts "Mort aux vaches!" at another policeman. When the policeman pays no attention to him he decides to end his life by jumping into the Seine. Befriended at the last moment by some Paris gamins, he goes off to live with them...
...impossible not to loathe and admire Captain Bligh just as much as in the book. From the moment he ordered the flogging of the dead sailor to the instant when he left the court martial, we felt just as strongly as Fletcher Christian. Even during his moments of greatness when he was navigating an open boat 3500 miles out of sight of land, he never lost his sadistic and narrow outlook. Charles Laughton became Captain Bligh...
...Buccleuch family. The Earl of Dalkeith and Lord George Scott have been for years close personal friends of his, and now, instead of traveling by train, the Duke nearly always visits his fiancée's family by car. The Duke's favorite at the moment is a Sunbeam, and Lady Alice now knows as much about the car as the Duke himself. She has driven it often with the Duke sitting beside her, and Border rumor has it that he actually proposed...
...Johnnies of American politics. . . . Before the times of Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt, the United States had practically NO NATIONAL DEBT. Now we have a formidable National debt of some THIRTY THOUSAND MILLION DOLLARS, which is continually INCREASING. . . . The most important thing before this Nation at this moment is to reduce EXPENDITURES, to reduce the NATIONAL DEBT, to reduce TAXATION, to reduce the BURDENS UPON BUSINESS AND UPON LABOR. . . . This is the A-B-C of economics; but unhappily there are a lot of people in Washington who do not know their...
Forsaking his mission as soul-saver for the moment, he revealed that the American game is not football at all but an unfortunate conglomeration of soccer and rugby. "And the best features of both those sports have been omitted," added Mr. Smith...