Word: breach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blushed when the other charge was brought. A witness reported overhearing a middle aged woman who was pressed against a young dastard say "You wouldn't dare insult me, sir, if Jack were only here," but he denied saying that a young woman had sued the Inter-urban for breach of promise. No doubt the result will be as usual, simply that good newspaper editors will attribute the degeneracy of the tunnel system to modern youth and the generally low plane of New York's busy life...
...noteworthy of these. The successful paper devotes its gains to altruistic aims, and has practically demonstrated how a paper can be run with no financial profit. Until general recognition is made of this fact, journalistic ethics, in the true sense of the term, will be honored rather in the breach than in the observance in the daily newspapers of America...
...attractions to be found within, and the midway strollers who succumb to me lure of the Barker's fluent magic, contribute to the success of the climax, in which the Barker, about to quit the show, hears the inadequate substitute drive the crowds away, and jumps into the breach. One leaves with a new respect for the profession of bally...
...balm for releasing his hold upon the elderly spinster of their party; the hunting expedition to which the jelly-bellied Pickwick sallies forth in a wheelbarrow; the court scene in Guildhall where Sergeant Buzfuz (bellowing in the person of Bruce Winston) wins the Widow Bardell's suit for breach of promise against the harassed but philosophical hero...
...school children is remarkable Schools at the present day pay little attention to the actual art of writing and the children are hurried on to other things before they have their letters properly formed. If writing is not taught, something else must be, and typewriting seems to fill the breach as well as anything. Possibly it may no be many years before students at the University may be attending lectures and examinations in company with a pocket typewriter. The Pennsylvanian...