Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Therefore, since the Council cannot act in matters of state if there be even one dissenting vote, the proceedings came to an abrupt, ridiculous halt. Quick to relieve the tension, however, was Sir Austen Chamberlain. "I will introduce," said he sonorously, "a motion which is clearly a matter of procedure, and hence needs only a majority, namely, that the Council put the question of Polish-Lithuanian relations on the agenda of the September session...
...arresting eight. The snatchers, it appeared, were patriotically incensed because a new and larger-than-usual Italian flag had been unfurled, last week, on the 13th anniversary of the day when Italy finally declared war on Austria (see ITALY). The careful telephonic questions of Dictator Mussolini were followed by abrupt commands. Consul Riccardi gulped that he understood, hung up, donned resplendent attire, and fairly strutted to the residence of Provincial Governor Stumpf. There, like a sparrow chirping for an eagle, he voiced the fairly temperate demands of II Duce: 1) Austria to supply a new flag; 2) Austrian soldiers...
...scarcely less numerous body, better prepared for college work, find themselves seriously disappointed in their expectations of college by the large proportion of elementary work which occupies their Freshman year. The outstanding problems of the first year at Harvard are thus of a twofold nature: the difficulty of abrupt transition for the immature or ill prepared student, and the lack of inspiration and of insight into his future work offered the more advanced student. While neither of these problems can be entirely solved on the college side alone, certain measures with regard to Freshman work might prove helpful in both...
Therefore Polish connoisseurs of execution regretted the abrupt dismissal of Hangman Maciejewski last week. They set up his reputation for conscientious professional conduct against the announcement of the Ministry of Justice that he had been proved to spend his leisure time "in drinking immoderately . . . contracting many bad debts . . . [and] generally leading a dissolute life." Squeamish Poles rejoiced at a further official announcement that the permanent gallows which now stand in the yards of all State prisons will be removed "as offensive to public opinion." Hereafter a special, temporary gallows will be erected for each neck-snapping or strangulation...
...monkeys were sitting almost motionless on the lower branches of the trees. The air was as thick as chicken gumbo. Suddenly, the animals and the natives were disturbed by a noise like nothing they had ever heard before. An airplane shot down from the sky and came to an abrupt stop in the tangled grasses of a clearing near the village. A woman stepped out unsteadily and fainted. Two natives picked her up and carried her into Bulawayo, where they gave her some sour milk. She developed a fever, and said her name was Lady Heath. That did not mean...