Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hurried bugle call, and as the ship's bell began to sound the call to fire stations. Commander McHenry, dropping his knife and fork, rushed on deck. Flames were leaping from the ventilators; the fire was already beyond control. Hastily an S. 0. S. was sent, a moment before the wireless cabin was engulfed in flames. Men from sick bay were placed in boats and lowered to the water. The rest of the ship's company were forced to the bow by the conflagration amidships...
...Isaac Howard." Said another: "You mean that was Isaac Howard." The crowd laughed. Fifteen minutes later the doctor with his stethoscope pronounced Isaac Howard dead. Another spiritual began above, another body plunged through the trap. A dozen young girls who had been lazy about getting up came in a moment later. "Look how long his neck is," one exclaimed. "That's because it's broken," explained an officer. The girls giggled. The doctor ordered silence so that he could listen for heart beats with his stethoscope. Fourteen minutes later he was still hearing them. "Aw, hell," someone yelled...
After drinking the King's toast and lighting their banquet cigars, the members of the National Liberal Club settled back in their chairs last week to hear Britain's most important Liberal Cabinet Minister formally renounce his faith. It was a moment to make the late great William Ewart Gladstone turn in his grave, but, full of turtle soup and tawny port, the National Liberals took it calmly. All his life a Free Trader, Sir John Simon. Secretary for Foreign Affairs, was explaining his conversion to a high tariff policy...
...storm, was forced to take shelter in the lee of an island. Never a good sailor, Samuel Insull tossed sickishly about on his little freighter reeking of stale oil and garlic and whimpered that shiploads of U. S. pirates were lying in wait to kidnap him. At the last moment the French Government decided to forbid his landing at Djibouti, French Somaliland, chief port of entry for Abyssinia...
...important advantage on the choppy water that afternoon. Primed by a robust meal of steak and beer the night before, the Oxonians carried their shell from the boathouse; as challengers, set it in the water first; pulled off sweaters and scarfs; waited. The Cambridge boat was ready in a moment. At the crack of a gun, 16 pairs of white arms swung in unison, off to a flailing 36-beat start. Oxford edged away to a half-length lead, held it for a while. The slower stroking but more powerful Cambridge sweep-swingers pulled alongside, passed at the mile. Wide...