Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With indulgent jocularity. Premier Herriot interrupted M. Marin, heckled him gently until the feeble old legislator was stammering, repeating himself, talking in ludicrous circles. The Chamber roared with laughter. For a moment it looked as if the sympathies of the Deputies, who love to be entertained, were shifting towards the Premier. But not for long...
...fixed charge on athletics would undoubtedly arouse considerable opposition from those men who do not now use the athletic facilities, and also from many others because of the increase in the charge, still it must be considered in making any final judgement that the Harvard student at the present moment gets more than his money's worth for his participation ticket, and that, viewed in the broader aspect, a fixed fee would tend to benefit the system of athletics at Harvard as a whole...
...elusive. "Her mind is . . . like a jewel contained in a most beautiful casket." The hero is a brunette; and like the protagonists in Horatio Alger stories, he begins a peasant boy, to rise to great heights. The villain has the miraculous ability of always appearing suddenly at the crucial moment to torment his victims. And there is ever present mysterious music and the clanking of armor...
Somewhere a clock tinkled, and friendly man hopped from his chair. Within a minute the long nose, the curlyhead, the cherub would be gone. For a moment the Vagabond sensed the greatness of a man who had built his house by the side of the road. And then there was Quincy Street...
...very anxious that his men should outmarch the Easterners; but he led the column, would not turn his head to look. Finally, unable to stand the suspense, he turned, saw them marching as they had never marched before. Said he: "I believe it was the happiest and most satisfactory moment of my life." Sherman "never clearly won a battle, nor ever failed to win a campaign...