Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington one day last week New Jersey's Representative Charles Aubrey Eaton sat down at his House desk, began ruffling through the mail piled up during his vacation. Opening a letter from the White House, he stared for a moment, then crowed with delight. White-thatched Representative Eaton, a Baptist minister from 1893 to 1919, has since 1925 been an ardently Republican member of the House, distinguished of late for his persistent heckling of New Dealers. The White House letter, addressed to "the Rev. Charles A. Eaton," was a copy of President Roosevelt's famed appeal...
Taking the pen without a flicker, sardonic Premier Laval wrote as his precious thought of the moment, "10%." Then, scribbling his autograph beneath, he strolled out as pleased with himself as only a French statesman can be when he knows that France is not only acclaiming his heavy statecraft but will soon be chuckling at his light...
...Italian plane attempting to bomb the bridge must fly low directly overhead. Whittley arranged his guns in star-shaped formation with sights screwed tight and set for an imaginary point just above the centre of the bridge. Providing the Ethiopian soldiers remembered where the triggers were at the right moment, they were sure to pink any plane that entered the field of fire...
...taxes had not been paid (TIME, Oct. 14). With set faces, the Japanese Navy officers demanded restitution, apologies, punishment of Canton customs men, abolition of the annoying duties and the right of Japanese to trade in the upriver country back of Swatow. Out of nearby British Hongkong, at that moment, sailed the British Asiatic Fleet, off for the Red Sea and European troubles. Then into Hongkong sailed part of the U. S. Asiatic Fleet on its way to the Philippines. A U. S. gunboat and a British warship put in at Swatow. Japanese abruptly dropped their demands. A "face-saving...
...handles the baton so cleverly and who causes that terrible moment of suspense when he gives his wrist that twist which causes the silvery baton to rise in a high are over the goalpost is W. Benjamin Tabler '36. Although a senior, Tabler will be back next year as a graduate student to continue his work of thrilling the stands...