Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Friend Cardozo performed Felix Frankfurter's marriage ceremony in 1919. Friend Holmes told Massachusetts it would be lucky to get him on its Supreme Court. Friend Roosevelt's tribute last week was equally impressive. For up to the last moment pressure was strong on the President to make his third Supreme Court appointment count politically by giving it to the West (now represented only by Minnesotan Pierce Butler) and possibly to a Catholic. The President paid his respects to Catholics by naming Frank Murphy Attorney General. He succeeded in paying sufficient respect to the West by asking Nebraska...
...Gilbert Frankau (Dutton, $2.50), is as modern as gas masks for babies. Laid in 1936-37, it tells what happens when Major "Rusty" Rockingham, bachelor scion of an aristocratic British military family, falls in love with the dazzling American wife of his hardbitten colonel. Nothing happens: at the last moment both Rockingham and Camilla renounce their honorable passion for the greater honor of Empire. The Wally Simpson case, which breaks simultaneously, makes a well-pointed contrast...
...gong for the next round, she was winded. In fact, she was punch-drunk. She couldn't seem to select the rest of the meal. Every moment that she hesitated the nephew knew that she was losing ground. But what to do about it? Finally the elder struck out in desperation: "I haven't had any corn on the cob for some time. How would what go with clams...
...ghosts, they gain the ability to vanish or materialize whenever they like. In Topper (1937), Marion and George proved themselves indefatigable posthumous cutups: to save their friend Cosmo Topper (Roland Young) from his fussy wife (Billie Burke), Marion materialized herself in Cosmo's hotel room at an improper moment. In Topper Takes a Trip, the sequel, Topper and his wife set out to get a divorce, but neither of them really wants one. It thus becomes Marion's job to effect a reunion...
...right, Geer, pack up. You're coming with me," snapped the Dean of the University police from under his Tyrolean hat, the moment he arrived on the scene. "Don't you know you shouldn't be hero?" he added. According to earwitnesses, Geer immediately lost the beautiful English account which had graced his sales talk. "I didn't know that at all," he protested...