Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then the Gloria which angels sang at Christ's birth. Just before the priest consecrates the Host there may be a full-voiced Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus Dominus Deus Sabaoth- "Holy, holy, holy Lord God of hosts," recalling Christ's triumphant entry into Jerusalem. And at the great moment of communion with the Body and Blood of Christ, the congregation may sing in supplication, Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis: "Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy...
...removed to an asylum. Lilly Turner consoles herself for her husband's dipsomania and the sad tenor of her existence by having an affair with the strong man's more personable successor (George Brent). She is about to run away with him when there occurs the one moment in Lilly Turner that possesses an element of dramatic action. The lunatic strong man escapes from his asylum and throws the barker through a window. Lilly Turner stays with the medicine show to nurse him. Her lover stays on also, hoping that circumstances may improve...
Ruth Chatterton's main fault as an actress is that, however deplorable her circumstances may be, she remains a lady. Thus the most spurious moment in this picture is the one which shows Lilly Turner hunched drunkenly on the front seat of the medicine show truck which her lover is driving, guzzling whiskey out of a pint bottle and confessing, with improbably heroic hiccoughs, that she has a Past...
...Paris he met his first love again, but now she was a famous actress and Bonaparte's mistress-of-the-moment. Soon disappointed in Europe. Anthony willingly engaged himself in an international financial scheme which took him to England, Spain, then permanently to New Orleans. There at last he married and settled down on his own plantation. But a disastrous fire killed his wife and child. Anthony left civilization and took to the wilderness. Captured first by Indians, then by Spaniards who were rounding up interlopers on Mexican soil, he survived the long trek to Mexico City only...
...hotel lobby, she was thrilled. Author Woodward makes Larry a far-from-attractive specimen, tacitly defends himself by intimating that women's tastes are unaccountable. Some of Larry's more honeyed speeches: "Say, dear, give me your coat. . . . Please rise a moment, will you, dear? . . . You golden-voiced gal. . . . How about a little loving?" Evelyn thought he was just irresistible, yielded herself with hardly a struggle. It was not long, however, before she discovered he was a bad number. When he threatened blackmail she shot him. Another woman was arrested. Evelyn got Husband John to take the case...