Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biographers, plying their little hatchets, would be the first to confess that this affectionate title possessed no small degree of accuracy. How for example, is one to explain succinctly the character of a man who would in one moment defy a whole city, as Jackson did when he placed New Orleans under martial law, and who would in the next submit meekly to the sentence of Judge Dominick Hall, one of the major victims of that defiance? How is one to harmonize the picture of the man who caused the imprisonment of the Spanish commissioner in the common goal with...
...formidable Rube Williams could not seem to get loose, and Cecil Smith was hitting wild. Hopping was everywhere, his red helmet charging into every scrimmage, sometimes entirely surrounded by Western players. As the white wooden ball shot out of a scrimmage, the ponies would prance up & down for a moment of suspense, then rush headlong together. In the sixth the East was leading 8 to 7 when it added two goals. In the seventh Rube Williams, boiling to get loose, rode his pony full into Hitchcock. At the same moment Hopping rode into him. Hitchcock and Hopping rode off after...
There was a sad moment when Rome heard how the 24 seaplanes, which flew neatly from Newfoundland to the Azores, were cut to 23. Capt. Ranieri's ship...
...clanging, cannon-shooting. The General taxied his plane alongside an improvised receiving stand (a derrick platform) where stood Benito Mussolini, Crown Prince Umberto, the King's aviator-cousin the Duke of Aosta, U. S. Ambassador Breckinridge Long. He stood on his plane's thick wing for a moment, arm outstretched in salute. Then he leaped ashore to be warmly kissed by Il Duce...
...dentist every month or two. Said Dr. Piperno last week: "I call ... at eight o'clock in the morning, just after he has had his half-hour at riding or fencing. He often brings with him something to read while I am attending him. He cannot endure a moment of idleness. I say very little to him for I do not wish to disturb his thoughts. In fact, it is a very serious half-hour I spend with His Excellency...