Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announced the Japanese drive might go "right down to Canton" some 1,200 miles south of Tientsin. Before it began dickering it wanted proof that China was "serious" about wanting to dicker. Meanwhile in the evacuated territory north of Tientsin the Chinese soldiers strutted like heroes for their brief moment.* Scamp Shot. A hint of Japan's real intentions in China exploded last week in Peiping's Grand Hotel des Wagon-Lits. An assassin shot and gravely wounded that thoroughgoing scamp General Chang Ching-yao, onetime military governor of Hunan Province. Police announced that Chang's mission...
...London and Edouard Hcrriot to Paris. Mr. MacDonald's carefully guarded report to the House of Commons on his Washington excursion produced vociferous dissatisfaction. He had failed to bring back a hard & fast plan for cutting War debts: that was all that seemed to matter at the moment. A bill was introduced into the House of Commons which will arm His Majesty's Government for a possible battle between the pound and the dollar by upping the Exchange Equalization Fund from...
...strides past the finish. Jockey Fisher stopped whipping his horse and reached over to slash at Jockey Meade. He dismounted, ran up to the judges' stand to protest that Meade had fouled him by holding his saddle cloth before the finish. For a moment everyone in the grandstand could see Fisher, a tiny, wildly excited figure in bright orange silks, waving both arms. The judges-aware that both jockeys had ridden roughly-turned their backs. Jockey Fisher sat down, buried his face in his hands. (Both he and Meade were later suspended.) On the score board, the word "official...
...museums for exhibition under the auspices of the College Art Association.† Mickey Mouse's popularity derives from the absolute freedom of the art form in which he exists. He can break all natural laws (he never breaks moral laws) and always win. He lives in the moment, has no inhibitions. When he wins he frankly gloats as though he thought he fully deserved to win. There is rarely a standard cinema Menace threatening him. It is his overeagerness. optimism and weakness for showing off before Minnie that get him into trouble. When Minnie is in danger he rescues...
Second, it splashed a gay moment of color on the drab canvas of Depression. Last week passers-by on Broadway might have thought that the season was opening at the dingy, yellow brick opera house. Cordons of police held back curious spectators. Shiny limousines rolled up, discharging richly dressed socialites. Flash-lamps flared continuously. Inside, the old theatre had changed its aspect completely. A floor had been built over the worn, red plush orchestra chairs. An improvised circle of boxes had been built under the Dia- mond Horseshoe. The scenery for La Rondine had been set up on the stage...