Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This last proved too much for Great Britain's Prime Minister during the Great War, hoary David Lloyd George. Cried he: "Can anyone recall since the Great War a more sinister moment than now? So, if there is a 'lull,' it must mean that this Government has given guarantee: The Foreign Secretary shakes his head but if he says that no guarantees have been given by the Government to Italy, then I cannot understand what the Prime Minister meant by his amazing reference to 'the lull.'" Since for electioneering purposes His Majesty's Government...
...Party agreed to leave the suppression of the Fascists to their Deputies in Parliament which reconvenes next month. To this triumph of PATIENCE no small contribution was made by Fascist de La Rocque himself last week. In a letter to Pierre Laval which was made public at the crucial moment, the No. 1 French Fascist declared: "We have no other intention than to defend the Republic. We will obey the new laws and hold our demonstrations on private property...
Canton's head man, Marshal Chen Chi-tang, seized the moment to insult Nanking and Generalissimo Chiang: "The Southeast will never witness a duplication of the spectacle of more than 100,000 Chinese soldiers evacuating an immense area without firing a shot in obedience to demands of the heads of the Japanese Army. . . . If Nanking orders the Southeast to agree to any unreasonable Japanese demands, we would refuse to obey and would stand up and tight for China's rights...
Similarly moved, the Herald Tribune: "She wore a brown coat with a mink collar which she held up around her face continuously, and a small brown hat, almost tricorne in shape, similar to her headdress in Peter Pan. . . . She walked gracefully to the stand, stood erect for a moment, then turned and bowed to Justice McNamee . . . another bow to the jury . . . she seated herself...
...principally memorable for its items of unessential information which throw an oblique light on the times. Thus, Author Brown records that William Cullen Bryant introduced one speaker at Cooper Union as "a lawyer well known in the West, Mr. A. Lincoln." Lincoln's principal problem at that moment was to straighten out the affairs of his son, Robert, who had just flunked his examinations at Harvard. When Lincoln left the hall the committee assigned to escort him to his hotel paid his five-cent carfare and let him ride back alone...