Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most astonishing predicament. His wife (Nedda Harrigan) has left him to sin with a young illustrator (Lester Vail). The illustrator has fished a drowning prostitute out of the East River, rushed off to ask Mrs. Mitchell what to do about her. Lawyer Mitchell has chosen this awkward first act moment to call upon the illustrator and settle the score with him. He finds the prostitute there alone, accidentally shoots her dead. When the illustrator is accused of murder, Mrs. Mitchell is impudent enough to ask her husband to defend him. Lawyer Mitchell is weighing the advantages of doing so when...
...party will result in civil war or worse. No one faction in France was capable of taking advantage of the late disturbances in order to provoke a successful revolt against Republicanism; and it is extremely unlikely that they will be afforded a sufficient opportunity again. The crucial moment in France has passed and has left the opponents of the existing order honorless and covered with dust from their fast-stepping rivals...
...able to devote but little attention to foreign affairs. Consequently, it becomes increasingly likely that Dollfuss will not be able to hold out against the Nazi flood for much longer. The antagonistic tone adopted by Prince von Starhemberg, commander of the Heimwehr indicates all too clearly that the moment of collapse cannot be much longer deferred...
English reporters contented themselves with respectfully noting that Her Royal Highness appeared to enjoy the circus thoroughly. But the Canadian Press told its Dominion readers: "Elizabeth's happiest moment came when 'Whimsical Walker,' England's oldest clown (he is well past 80 years of age) came to the royal box and presented his familiar 'red hot' poker, which the princess laughingly grasped. The red paint didn't fool...
Chafing with spleen General Göring filled in a leisure moment by usurping for himself the highly aristocratic post of Master of the Hunt in Prussia. "We must eliminate the vulgar 'meat hunter' in favor of the true German sportsman," cried Master GÖring. "Ample wild life must be maintained to preserve the German animal world as the living soul of the Fatherland...