Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will wait up for a message from President Roosevelt," he cried, "even if I have to sit up until four in the morning. . . . The moment I hear I shall let you all know. . . . Goodnight. . . . Goodnight...
...Turner. Col. Turner (California National Guard) was being hunted all over the field by a process server. Several times they passed within a few feet of each other but Pilot Turner, clad in unaccustomed overalls, went unrecognized despite his famed spiked mustache. At the last moment he stripped away the overalls, revealed his habitual fancy costume of sky-blue tunic (with his initials embroidered in silver), fawn-colored breeches, Sam Browne belt, riding boots, visored cap with silver "T"-and was off. Beating the rising sun across the Alleghenies, Pilot Turner came down at Columbus for fuel and nearly lost...
Cleveland's Bishop Schrembs recommended especially the moment in the Mass when "the priest bows low as the little altar bell tinkles and he gazes upon the sacred Host just trans-substantiated between his linger and raises it on high, and you gaze upon it with a gaze of love; and then out goes a cry from the hearts of the believing people, Benedictus, qui venit in nomine Domini, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest! Let the congregation sing...
...outgrow Manhattan. It was rumored that he was soon to leave the Mayfair Yacht Club for Hollywood where his wit, properly censored, would provide an element thus far missing (see p. 30) in musical productions. Last week also, to the amazement of his admirers who had never for a moment supposed that any of his recitations might be printable, Dwight Fiske published his first book, Without Music...
...kingpin of a polyglot community in Siberia, escaped to the U. S. ("the Contry of the Gold Devil"), where he pyramided another flimsy fortune, gradually subsided into a broken-down old panhandler in the Orient. When Authoress Benson last heard of him he was in Macao, "where, for the moment, he stands balanced, as though on a steppingstone, about to step into a new life of grand sansation...