Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...captain, who shanghai's her as soon as alcohol has relieved him of his scanty scruples. The ship turns out to be the vessel of a group whose every effort is bent upon keeping the powers at sword's edge, a sort of munitions-makers' fairy godmother. At the moment this virtuous band is plotting to blow up the Panama Canal and blame it on the Japanese, so that the America-Japanese war will not take so long in coming about. In her efforts to return to her native land our poor Marie becomes hopelessly involved in the machinations...
...From the moment the Federal Tenders Board went to work in Kilgore, it was apparent that the wily hot-oil runners were in for real trouble. The Federal Board took its cues from the State but the final decision on the status of any lot of oil actually rested on a bulldogged, stone-steady gentleman named Captain E. N. Stanley. He was the Railroad Commission's chief enforcement officer. After an application was read, the Board would turn for advice to Captain Stanley, who passed about one in seven. Notorious hot-oil runners-and he knew them...
...gives his patient a sip of barium sulphate in thick cream and a moment later has him rub his belly. This kneads the stomach and spreads the barium cream evenly into all the wrinkles, leaving their ridges bare and transparent to x-rays. The roentgenogram appears striped. Every deflected stripe indicates potentially serious trouble. Dr. Hampton now is trying to adapt the same method to showing the haustra, or tucks, of the colon which often churn up disease...
...wife of Benjamin-Z.-Fineberg-President-of-Superfine-Pictures-Incorporated, pronounced all as one word. She can cope with everything but the English language. When she says. "I won't brandish words with you." or "I must retire now and commute with myself for a moment," the hoarse voice of Actress George leaves nothing to be desired...
...wink. Ladies in green hats are long passées, but duchesses are never out of style. Hell! Said the Duchess is nicely calculated to tickle the fancy of detective-story addicts, of tycoons tired of trilogies, of all persons except young children who are for the moment sick of being serious...