Word: moment
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...classes are each partial to their own view, tending to disregard the claims of the opposite side. It is on the sentiment of the Chinese people toward this question that the words of the Right Reverend Logan Herbert Roots '91, D.D., Bishop of Hankow, China, are of special moment...
...conversation with Fame. Miss Jennison, as Fame, looked the part to perfection, and if her Cockney was somewhat variable, it was forgotten in contemplating the picture she made. Mr. Fawcett did the best bit of characterization in the piece. Only once did he over-act--at the moment when he says goodbye to the Poet...
...that seldom, if ever, has there been such uniformly good acting in a Dramatic Club performance. There was scarcely a jarring note in all the five acts. The massing of characters on the stage was easily managed, the exits and entrances smooth and logical--there was never an awkward moment. The danger, from the actor's point of view, lay in over acting. Those who remember plays of this sort in Germany, recall the heavy buffoonery and ridiculous capers of the characters; the plays were reduced to the merest and broadest farce, with the comedy values obscured by clownish antics...
...ordinary man, intent upon his own affairs, and content to let the universe whirl on as it it will so long as it does not bother him, the fact that men devote their whole lives to the stars is of little moment. He feels that it is a great waste of time, perhaps--that is all. Unknown to him is the fact that he sets his watch according to time given him by astronomers, that ships could not navigate the seas; that the commerce of the world depends on the painstaking care and self-sacrificing effort of men whose names...
Mexico has chosen the psychological moment for her latest outrages on the lives of American citizens. The world, is tired of war; public opinion is against it; and Mexico knows that many crimes must be committed before this country will send to the border an army large enough to cope with the situation. Also the Carranza government is clever enough to see the affect of American aggression on the European powers. Already suspicious of our motives because of the blind folly of the Senate in failing to ratify the Peace Treaty, any show of force on our part would turn...