Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rubel employe known as Charlie left his shanty office on the loading platform, went into the building to open the company safe. He was about to remove $450 to turn over to U. S. Trucking Corp.'s armored car, which was due on its collection round at any moment. Another employe dashed through the office. "Close it, Charlie! Close it quick!" he panted. "There's a hold-up outside...
...link in any armored car service is the 15 seconds between the opening of the car door, to let out the armed guard and a cash carrier at a pick-up point, and the closing and locking of that door from the inside by the driver. At that precise moment, after the U. S. Trucking Corp.'s car had halted close to the Rubel platform, the man in the white apron whipped out a submachine gun from beneath the sacks on his pushcart. Instantly he was surrounded by numerous allies, some of whom had just drawn up in three automobiles...
...Richard Strauss, one of the Salzburg Festival founders, conduct a cycle of his operas, grudgingly allowed him to sit in the audience when Clemens Krauss led Elektra. He nearly ruined a performance of Tristan by yanking German Tenor Hans Grahl out of the cast at the last moment, He saw to it that Wilhelm Furtwangler, conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, stayed away from his two scheduled Salzburg performances...
...orchestra crashes and a storm with electric lightning sends the frightened tribesmen cowering. After the storm, hunters clad in red, purple and orange fell a lion, the Dread of the Jungle. The tom-toms beat again as a human sacrifice is prepared. But at the last moment King Mumbra releases the maiden. But neither he nor his witch doctor can prevent the Portuguese traders from capturing his people...
...full between two trains, a moment of silence in the traffic, and a wayfarer cocked an incredulous ear to catch the faint strains of Gregorian chant coming from under the bridge...