Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...driver, he once more approached the baby bovine. Only this time he planned his attack in advance, like a field marshal leading his troops into battle. Flanked on one side by a brick gatepost and on the other by the automobile driver the patrolman closed in. For a moment it looked as if the calf would make a brake stand, but realizing that he was outnumbered three to one, and overwhelmed by this careful planning, the animal surrendered without a bawl. Ten minutes later the calf was once more safely ensconced in the Packing Company's truck...
...rolled up to the White House portico and out stepped the stocky, silk-hatted figure of Alexander Antonovich Troyanovsky, first Soviet Ambassador to the U. S., first diplomat from Russia since Kerensky's representative departed in 1922. With his escort he waited in the Green Room for a moment until the President was ready to receive him in the Blue Room. In excellent English the Ambassador read: . . . The very fact of the cooperation and friendship between two such great and powerful nations as the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics must inevitably be of great historical...
...that if necessary the President would have Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi introduce a White House silver proposal. Such inflationist outcries as were heard came chiefly from the Senators and Representatives of the six large silver-producing states,* where remonetization of silver means profit first, inflation second. For the moment at least the President's "stupendous" budget message (see p. 17) had stilled Congressional demands for Greenbackery or other measures likely to impair Government credit...
...Divine Moment (by Robert Hare Powel; produced by Peggy Fears Blumenthal). A patrician old spinster (Charlotte Granville) lies in her Newport, R. I. house where the lamps are still filled with whale oil, the bathtubs are tin, the portraits 150 years old. She is briskly sentimental with an octogenarian admiral (William Ingersoll) who has thoughtfully dissembled his love for 60 years, tries to persuade her young nephew (Tom Douglas) to give up his Wall Street career and live with her. He promises to show his fiancée when he finds a girl who does not mispronounce Rockefeller. With these...
...last week the question had become of such moment that Sir Arthur Keith, famed anthropologist, felt impelled to write the Daily Mail: "Strange to say, it is just the great number of witnesses and the discrepancy in their testimony that have convinced professional zoologists that the 'monster' is not a thing of flesh & blood. I have come to the conclusion that the existence or nonexistence of the 'monster' is not a problem for zoologists but for psychologists...