Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week sympathetic Viennese reporters wrote human interest stories about "Recruiting Night." They told how "fine young men, driven literally by starvation," stood shivering in line the whole night long in front of Rossauer Barracks, ready to offer themselves the moment recruiting began...
...dirtily with James Boswell, Joshua Reynolds and David Garrick. The talk is not of the Yankee rebellion but of women?how silly, superficial, lacking in humor and the ability for "true creation'' they are. Just to show up the testy lexicographer. Playwright Hinkley implies, Divine Providence was at that moment bringing Jane Austen into the world. She appears in person on the stage at the age of 23. No one in the audience would realize it, but according to her historians she had already written Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, was busy with Northanger Abbey. As impersonated by Actress Josephine Hutchinson...
...Academy send felicitations. The old folks coo and hold hands. Whereupon appears Louise Morel (Fay Bainter), the playwright's secretary in his earlier days. Off go the wigs and greasepainted wrinkles as Mile Morel begins to tell her story of how Mme Catalan once had a weak moment with an actor and M. Morel once betrayed his wife with his amanuensis. But when the fade-back has concluded and the young people have become old people again, the Catalans agree to apply the statute of limitations to their respective follies, continue to dodder their happy way along to the grave...
...Fanny saved up her money to take a little trip through the Tyrol in the autumn. She had never seen the mountains, but she felt sure she would love them. There was a photograph of them on the wall of the kindergarten in which she taught at Manchester. The moment he saw her the strapping young innkeeper of the Gasthaus Rote Hirsch, above Innsbruck, knew that he and Fanny would get along together. For the police register she confessed to being 29. The amiable innkeeper was amazed. The reason she looked so childlike, he decided, was because she was always...
...drag himself ever so little towards his master. However Odysseus saw him out of the corner of his eye and brushed away a tear. . . . He plunged into the house, going straight along the hall amidst the suitors; but Argos the dog went down into the blackness of death, that moment he saw Odysseus again after 20 years...