Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...generation. Toronto had become the stronghold of Tories who felt so secure that years of niggling graft were heading the Province for a sudden, swift, pro-Liberal reaction to "throw the rascals out." It came soon, and ebullient young Mr. Hepburn could not have chosen more shrewdly the moment for his political debut. Increasingly sleek, fashionably dressed and attentive to women (although happily married, albeit childless*) "Mitch" at first used to go about saying frankly, "I owe my election to ladies, Liberals and Labor!" In those days he was blatantly the proletariat's friend. In 1930 at 34 years...
...weeks. Supposedly it had fully discounted both war in China and a sudden wave of pessimism over fall business prospects. But the day sun-browned brokers returned from their holiday, a first-class European crisis burst on the front page. Apparently it caught Wall Street at a psychologically vulnerable moment. The market was thin, the selling persistent. Routed from its long rut, the trading volume soared to 1,870,000 shares, and at times the ticker was as much as three minutes behind the floor. When the closing bell bonged that day 385 stocks had touched bottom...
...being "broken down and made over" by Tony, could soon sum up her past activities in ''a decadent unhappy world" thus: "I had been something like an octopus with many arms, a psychic belly, and a highly developed pair of eyes." She learned "to live in the moment," learned self-sufficiency (except when Tony was out of her sight). Particularly she learned something that made it easy to write her candid memoirs, namely, the Indian belief that "the power goes out of truth as soon as it is told, spoken or written down...
...largely satirical. A bare-faced satire on the national bestseller of the moment, Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, Irving Tressler's How to Lose Friends and Alienate People had nothing up its sleeve to match its name or its blurb: "What I think of Irving D. Tressler couldn't be printed in anything but Braille-and then it would be too hot to touch. ... It is the only book which is today offsetting the 20-year drive by American advertisers to make everyone in this country popular with everyone else...
...week imaginative doctors figured out a way of making the spray effective in small children whose nostrils are too narrow to admit the tip of an atomizer. An extra amount of the protective solution is sprayed into the lower part of the child's nares. Then for a moment the child is held upside down, thus causing the liquid to flow against the nerves of smell which must be covered, if the virus of infantile paralysis is to be kept from invading the brain and spine...