Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hoover, Mr. Smith and New York Life's President Buckner lined up behind President Buckner's desk for three-cornered handshaking photographs. There was a moment's hush, broken when Mr. Hoover leaned over to President Buckner, volunteered in a sepulchral whisper: "I have shrunken an inch...
...timid to arraign Germany by name before the League, the Conference shoved off that duty upon France (see p. 20) but vented its feelings thus: "It was regretfully recognized that the method of unilateral repudiation of the Treaty of Versailles] adopted by the German Government, at a moment when steps were being taken to promote a freely negotiated settlement of the question of armaments, had undermined public confidence in security of a peaceful order. Moreover the magnitude of the declared program of German rearmament, already well in the process of execution, had invalidated the quantitative assumptions on which efforts...
...serenade, for it was his wedding morn. As every German knows, Nazi No. 1 eschews pomp, never wears anything more pretentious than a corporal's uniform, eats no meat, never smokes, drinks nothing stronger than beer. Contrariwise No. 2 Nazi Hermann Wilhelm Göring crowds every waking moment with pomp and circumstance, changes from gorgeous to still more gorgeous uniforms half a dozen times a day, stuffs his fat but mighty-muscled frame with much raw meat, tosses off champagne with gusto and indulges his every whim, from keeping a fond lioness at home to forcing the League...
...Toronto the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire hired Ming-Toy, a dancer formerly at London's Kit Kat Club, for their annual ball last week, forbade her at the last moment to dance in her usual costume, silver paint. Undaunted Ming-Toy did a sinuous, undulating fan dance before the Imperial Daughters of the British Empire, then, at the last moment, showed what she thinks of them by raising her fans and standing starkly revealed in red underdrawers...
Inconsiderate friends may ask you to climb three floors to get someone to whom they must speak at the moment...