Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never present." Neither are ladies-in fact, though not in theory. Madam Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins was only member of the Cabinet not invited. While the Gridiron dinner was in progress. Mrs. Roosevelt gave Miss Perkins a party-for-ladies-only at the White House. In an exuberant moment Major, the Roosevelt police dog and only male present, nipped Madam Senator Caraway of Arkansas on the arm. ¶ At work last week was President Roosevelt on his three last special messages to Congress which he hopes to get adjourned about June 1. If it should dally longer...
...were two poles placed upright and a sobbing boy sitting on the floor. The muscles of his cheeks contracted and relaxed spasmodically; his legs twitched. Dequuro, the god who warned the people of Ponguelano, on more serious occasions, had purposely neglected the sick and the healers until the last moment, knowing that neither group had any confidence in him; yet his sense of duty precipitated him into the room... As the doctors and nurses were leaving the laboratory, Professor Liovarn turned to an ebon wall. "Dequuro," he cried, "you have ruined by experiment. I would have continued until the brat...
...evident that at the moment the Critic cannot arouse Harvard's overstuffed middle class from its lethargy. The last two issues have proved that the editors belong to this same middle class, "parasitical, living off other people's ideas," completely laking "the idealism of youth." Where they find their sex, will perhaps be indicated in the next installment. John P. Coolidge...
...Vagabond is thankful. Now he notices the slim young girl in the rear of the store, dressed in poor dishevelled black, and it does not matter what she is buying, what grey routine she is coming from; she is there, bright flesh, smiling, unworried, absolute in the moment, against a gaudy background of boxes and labels, like some person in a novel. The streetcars pass, carrying people to no destination; they sit in the brightly lit rows of seats, staring out, they flicker above the roar of the car-wheels, and exist no further. Enchanted, the Vagabond strolls past shops...
...later session Emerson 11 was decorated with three clothes lines, on each of which was attached an illuminated clothespin. Walter announced, "I'll show you a very nice trick in a moment." The "doughnut," a phosphorescent disc, seemed to move on the table towards Margery. "An earthquake," said Walter. He then rocked the table to demonstrate that it was not solid on its feet. He tore a piece out of the doughnut held over the table around a professor's left thumb. "Psychic dinner," the spirit said. Then Walter again said "Good Night...