Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Final titillating moment came last week when the nine modest Justices had to have Capitol police open pathways through the crowded corridors to their offices. If there was any doubt that the Court's decision was to be rendered that day it was dispelled 40 minutes before the Court assembled, when Mrs. Brandeis and Mrs. Butler took seats in the Courtroom. The wives of other Justices followed. But the Administration had already guessed that the decision was to come: Secretaries Morgenthau and Hull had a 1 o'clock luncheon appointment at the White House; Mrs. Morgenthau...
When dollar diplomacy and the white man's burden led us to take the far-flung Philippines to our bosom there was considerable doubt whether the Constitution followed the flag. Mr. Dooley was asked what he thought about the problem. After considering a moment the humorist replied that he didn't know about that, but he was sure that the Supreme Court followed the election returns. Mr. Dooley apparently not only had a keen insight into his times but the ability to grasp and aptly phrase that which would have meaning for successive generations. Yesterday's "gold decisions" bear ample...
...Benes and Yugoslavia's subtle Jeftitch. Because of them the "Little Entente" is in effect a supplementary Great Power. By their recent Pact of Organization, reenforcing their longstanding entente, the three countries agree to function in international affairs as a single unit, represented at a given place and moment by whichever Little Entente Foreign Minister the other two have designated...
...moment it was done, all Yale was glad. Professor Nettleton, whose committee spurred Yale to do it, talked delightedly of a faculty "awakened to find itself blessed." The Yale News, which had wanted to do it before, acclaimed "one of the greatest educational advances Yale has ever made." The Alumni Weekly declared that the College had "crossed the Rubicon." What made Yale so happy last week was that the faculty had at last screwed itself up to the point of plumping for "Departmental" examinations like those which Harvard...
...Perken's philosophy of death Author Malraux seems to voice his own: "It seems to me sometimes that I am staking myself, all that I am, on a single moment -my last." As Claude watches his dying friend he thinks: "Ah, if only they existed, those gods of theirs, and he might, even at the cost of never-ending torment, howl in their faces, like the baying dogs, the bitter truth-that no hope of heaven, no promise of reward, nothing can justify the end of any human life...