Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long time Wall Street has buzzed with chit-chat about a new Angas pamphlet. Manhattan brokers urgently cabled for summaries the moment it was off the press. Financial pundits found long paragraphs in the scraps that drifted across the Atlantic. Last week The Coming American Boom was published in the U. S. by Simon & Schuster...
...little army of Belgian patriots, most of whom he had never seen. A group of Belgian professional men, bankers and the nobility, organized by an engineer and a professor, calling themselves "La Dame Blanche," had been his most valuable assistants. Greeting them was "the most dramatic moment of my life...
...Vienna last week. He was said to be insisting that his presence in Austria would be worse than useless so long as Germany supported the so-called "Austrian Legion" of Nazis who have escaped from Austria but intend to dash back for a coup at the first favorable moment. For days von Papen was reported bickering with Hitler over the Legion. Then the big guns of the German Ministry of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment fired a salvo of announcements that the Austrian Legion had been dissolved, added touching details of how its former members were hungrily looking for work...
Last week the marble, in spite of difficulties with the U. S. customs, was finally in Manhattan, cut, ready to be put in place. But at the last moment the stone cutters' union called a strike because the marble was cut in Italy, because it did not provide sufficient work for union members. Although the contractor last week admitted that he was hogtied again, he optimistically prophesied that the Pulitzer's Lady of the Plaza would not remain disreputable another winter...
...hearted John, under advice from his lawyers, goes through the whole business again, making sure that this time there will be plenty of evidence, though he is as guiltless of adultery as before. In spite of his hired co-respondent's coming down with measles at an awkward moment, the evidence is sufficient. Mary is given a decree nisi, to be made absolute in six months. But before that probationary period is safely over, disaster overtakes John and Mary...