Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Every moment a stimulating personality, with a mind that continuously strikes sparks, a brilliant advocate, he is not "shy." I think, but merely modest, preferring recognition by reason of straightforwardness and sound accomplishments rather than stage effects...
...month of Mars, 1935, could be set down positively last week by historians as the moment when the Great Powers frankly abandoned all the hopes and pretenses of the post-War peace period and openly squared away to rearm. With only two exceptions, "national defense" is each government's official reason for rearming, but that does not alter the exciting spectacle of seven major nations simultaneously girding themselves to fight, on land as well...
...defenses. Had he not, protesting Ohio's inability to raise its share of relief expenses, already invited complete Federal relief control? Had he not written Mr. Hopkins a fortnight before of his suspicions of "political influence" in the relief administration? Was not the Ohio Legislature at that very moment investigating relief irregularities...
...watch Frederick deliver the "betrothal kiss," of which every Scandinavian paper last week published pictures. Frederick's 55-year-old mother Queen Alexandrine of Denmark last week accompanied him to Stockholm. At this intense moment Queen Alexandrine was stricken with appendicitis and intestinal strangulation. Scandinavian Press "halted popular rejoicing," held its breath until the Queen came safely out of an operation...
Durand-Ruel picked an ideal moment to exhibit Renoir. Down the street the new Bignou Gallery had just opened with two important Renoirs as the high spots of its first exhibition; and the inventor of Argyrol, the most colorful collector in the U. S., irascible Dr. Albert C. Barnes of Merion, Pa. (TIME, March 26, 1934, et ante), last week published a large, authoritative, opinionated book on Renoir...