Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...David Graham Muschet Campbell's favorite boast that by Gad, sir, he knows how to ride a fractious horse. A Major-General, a K. C. B., Governor of the colony of Malta, his proudest moment was that spring day in 1896 when he won the Liverpool Grand National, a gentleman jockey, on The Soarer. In 1931 he was sent to handle a very fractious horse indeed, the island of Malta. Malta is Britain's most important naval base in the Mediterranean, but Malta is only 60 miles from Italy. Hundreds of Italian emigrants have settled there; most Maltese...
...beautiful one-contemplated a delay in striking the blow, nullification of the mandates of Communist Reichstag Deputies and then, on the first provocation, to seize all the Communist leaders, each of whom had committed enough crimes to be hung three times!" Folding his great arms and brooding for a moment like a brown Jove, General Göring exclaimed, "I regret exceedingly that certain Communist leaders have been saved from the gallows through such premature forcing of my hand. ... So surprised was I when I heard the Reichstag was burning that I thought faulty electric wiring must have started some...
...record themselves. Ishchenko's brigade gets the honor. It is partly like a sporting event, more like a battle. There are two deserters; one brigader runs several miles from the hospital where his wife is having a baby, to be on time; at a crucial moment the cement runs out: then some blundering fool cuts off the water to attach a metre; it rains; a storm comes, knocking out the telephone wires, imperiling vital communications. One of the briggaders loses a hand between two shunting flatcars. The foreman, incoherent with rage, implores his superior engineer, who he thinks...
There is a slowdown at the NRA. It became obvious the moment General Johnson started westward. When the boss is away important decisions are more or less held in abeyance, though, to be sure, the General might feel that his end of the recovery program is way ahead of all the others anyway and he can afford to take a rest and wait for the others to catch up. Certainly the approval of about 100 codes is a monumental task to have finished since July and if the controversial phases such as labor and wage rate adjustments were...
...perfectly unwarranted feeling that they might be 'sentimental' about it. I put off telling for a long time. Finally, one evening I followed Mother into her bathroom, and told her the news while she was brushing her teeth, so that she should have a moment to think before she said anything. Nick, meanwhile, with great formality was announcing it to Father in the study...