Word: moment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surface (mines and nets are 30 ft. down) on a night when there was "the most extraordinary display of Northern Lights I have seen in 15 years at sea." He said: "I was lying in very close to shore and several cars passed. One stopped for a moment, then turned about and rushed back at full speed. . . . These people must have seen me-nobody else could have in the shadow of the shore line...
...residence in the country, tall body, grey hair, dark mustache, spectacular brows, horn-rimmed glasses, sensitivity, firmness, a gentlemanly capacity for hard work and saki (rice wine), good clothes, a beautiful house filled with Oriental antiques, and one deaf ear, which he knows how to turn at the right moment...
...estate, which was rented from the Polish Ambassador in America, Count Potocki. Just two weeks after he left the estate the Russians entered this district. All the large estates were divided up and the land given to the peasants. Earle was in lots of air-raids. "My most scary moment," he says, "was the night we spent on the 'Washington' at Le Havre before sailing. We noticed that afternoon that about 100 yards from where the boat was lying on the dock, there was a small island with about 100 large oil tanks on it. One well aimed bomb would...
...brilliant cast is sometimes superb. But Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is bigger than any of these things. Its real hero is not calfy Jeff Smith, but the things he believes, as embodied in the hero of U. S. democracy's first crisis, Abraham Lincoln. Its big moment is not the melodramatic windup, but when Jefferson Smith stands gawking in the Lincoln Memorial, listening to a small boy read from a tablet the question with which this film faces everyone who sees it: "Whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure." The question...
...removal was properly signalized by that proper British institution, the fourth editorial (known as the Light Leader) of the London Times. In its characteristic tone, half-bulldog, half-maiden aunt, the Light Leader thus saluted Eros' departure: "From this moment onwards nobody can doubt that there is a war on, for London is the hub of the universe, and Piccadilly Circus is the hub of London, and Eros is the hub of Piccadilly Circus. How then can the universe revolve, when its hub's hub's hub is missing? . . . Until Eros returns to his perch...