Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...music swelled and filled the small room with a throbbing harmony. Slick Jones stood there, mouth agape, until he couldn't stand it any longer. He slipped out the door, and in a moment returned with his snare drum and cymbals. He got to work immediately, grinning from ear to ear. He is famed for wearing out a drum-skin once a week, and wearing out a pair of sticks every performance...
...share avalanche, Steel showed the way downward, sagging to $80 on sales of only 83,600 shares, and the whole list tumbled along with it, setting another low mark for 1937. The Dow-Jones industrial averages were off nearly eight points to 146.2. At one incredible moment there was not even a bid for General Motors, whose 43,500,000 shares of stock in the first six months this year earned some $2.50 apiece and whose U. S. sales in August set a record for that month. G.M. closed at $47.50 (1937 high...
...sailors' chanteys; Jimmy Charters, ruddy-faced and unfailingly genial barman. The four were not friends, were in fact rather rivals, each ruling a separate coterie-the ladies at their tables at the Dome, Rotonde or Select, Jimmy at whatever bar he happened to be tending at the moment...
...seem Miss Dunn, a carnival singer, spends two weeks with Scott when her circus wagon burns and marries him. At the moment of this marriage, an oil well suddenly sponts with gusto on Scott tries to run a pipe line to the refinery nearby but encounters labor difficulties since the time given by the refinery for the construction of the line is too short to suit the workmen. When most of his men have walked out hard guys employed by a railroad trying to gain control of the well start to tear up that portion of the line already laid...
...this man (Black) answer simple questions unless he has something to conceal?", was the way the Government 1 head opened his discussion of the moment's most interesting news...