Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are very, very few large courses in Harvard University in which there is truly inspired lecturing. Once or twice during the year, there will come a moment, as Professor Lake reads from the Bible, when the scratching of pens and pencils will cease, students will straighten to complete attention, every whisper will fade to nothingness, and, for a few long seconds, the class will hold its breath, while Professor Lake passes the climax of his passage. Such tension can only last for a moment, but the effect of it lasts years. To have been present on one of those...
...cotton futures (double that moment's market price...
...Brief Moment (Columbia) exhibits the difficulties that attend the marriage of an intelligent night club hostess to a wealthy ne'er-do-well. Abby Fane (Carole Lombard) marries Roderick Deane (Gene Raymond) with a very clear idea of what his family's reaction will be. In the course of a prolonged honeymoon, she acquires culture, fashionable boredom, a suspicion that her husband is more stupid than she thought at first. He enjoys being sponged on by his friends, particularly approves of a languid professional punster named Harold Sigrift (Monroe Owsley). Abby badgers Roderick into going to work...
Considerably less evanescent than the play by Samuel N. Behrman in which, performing as Sigrift, Critic Alexander Woollcott scored a sedentary success, Brief Moment emerges in the cinema as a bright investigation of small problems, slick, chipper and reasonably entertaining. Most inevitable shot: Owsley, inveterate cad of the films, sneering at Abby across his cocktail glass...
...extent of the problem, best remedies. Exclaimed Miss Perkins, who has a 16-year-old child of her own, Susanna Winslow Perkins Wilson, "No amount of statistics and no number of bulletins can take the place of a lamb chop and a glass of milk at the right moment...