Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italian whose greying black hair belies his 30 years. High-strung' always ready to take chances on the table, Ponzi is popular as a spectacular player. Eastern "wise money" was on him to win. During the entire game, which ran for 2 hr. 10 min. without a moment's intermission, Ponzi and Rudolph neither looked at each other nor exchanged a word. Rudolph was leading 105 to 68 when Ponzi started his 18th inning, ran his score up to 113. As he passed 105, Rudolph turned to a friend, muttered imperturbably: "He's one ahead...
...latest practice, and gone to join his comrade? How often one likes to think that it is so!" And of similar extravaganza there is abundance. But happily, it is accompanied by faithful, intelligent, and occasionally inspired research. There are many satisfying stories: The name Sherlock, at the last moment, supported that of I. Sherrinford, Watson was originally Ormond Sacker,--and to prove it there is reprinted a cut of the first page of Doyle's manuscript. Doyle, himself, engaged in detective activities with gratifying success. Four publishers sniffed at the "Study in Scarlet" before Ward, Lock & Co. achieved immortality...
...that moment a platoon of Harvard Dames caught sight of the unfortunate Mr. Conant, and brought him triumphantly through the door. He soon became the life of the party, despite the splendid presence of Cardinal O'Connell, in his magnificent robes of office...
...movies. They tell a simple story: they point a simple moral; in short they provide an evening of passive satisfaction, of delicious mental abnegation. The box office receipts on these movies provide a vivid guide to the producer as to just what will satisfy the public at any given moment. What one finds in these productions gives an extraordinarily interesting and, I think, significant indication of what the public is thinking, for movies do not only detect the ideas of the public, but they also strongly accentuate already existing tendencies...
...more understandable in the light of the political theory. The contributing causes of the Revolution are made to stand out vividly in the student's mind. Although his lectures are well filled with specific facts, Mr. Doolin has an enlightening habit of slipping in salient generalizations at the critical moment. His ability to put across the basic principles of an age or a series of events is developed to an extent uncommon in courses open to undergraduates...