Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moment after the finish excitable Range Finder ran away with Mrs. Whitney, threw her as he crashed through a rail fence, gashed himself badly...
...shoot at Chicago's North Shore Gun Club.) And he was extraordinarily fussy about taking a brown-paper parcel into the cabin with him. The porter decided Mr. Smith's behavior was not ominous enough to warrant reporting. He slammed the cabin door shut and in a moment No. 23 roared away-a big twin-motored Boeing of the latest design-with its two passengers, its crew of two pilots and the usual attractive young stewardess. Three hours later No. 23 slid down to Cleveland on time, took off again with two added passengers: a young refrigerator salesman...
...Pilot Evceyef jumped. Instead of opening his 'chute, he plummeted for more than two minutes until he was only 500 ft. above the ground. Then he yanked his ripcord. Said he afterward: ''The jolt was so great that for a moment everything was dark. Then the sun shone green. I made a normal landing with my parachute [in a forest] and walked back to the airfield where they greeted me with shouts of delight because they thought I was dead." Evceyef's record beat the previous mark, held by an Englishman, by more than a mile...
...beautiful, in her clipped manner. But the honors for holding this piece together go to Mr. Lewis Stone, Mr. Stone, it is true, is called upon for some difficult scenes. He must lecture his new detective; he must provide honorable exits for adulterous husbands; he must, in one moment, bluff a confession from some murderer, and, in the next, pat the shaggy head of a boy prodigy. This is the sort of thing which acting will ruin. But Mr. Stone is glad, as always, to remain Mr. Stone...
...transparency of the American announcement that it will have nothing to do with Europe's affairs is of course evident the moment one reads the Kellogg-Briand treaties outlawing war which were solemnly signed by the United States government and ratified by the United States senate...