Word: breach
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...what way this breach of international courtesy can be mended remains to be found, but it is obvious that some method must be available which operates without offense and with equal efficiency. One does not care to believe that it is the intention of the United States voluntarily to wound the feelings of a nation with whom in the past its relations have been of the friendliest...
...regrets to hear that yesterday "an unauthorized visitor entered various rooms in Claverly Hall without invitation." This breach of good manners in itself deserves some slight censure. But the entering was relatively unimportant "it was the leaving that really mattered. As a detail of history the young visitor levied contributions on his "various" hosts, to the grand total of approximately $150. To conceal nothing--Claverly Hall was robbed...
Meanwhile, the Senate was enjoying much discourse on the subject of passing the resolution authorizing the investigation. The resolution had been offered by Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Democrat from Montana who in his resolution attempted to name the investigating committee. This was objected to as a breach of the tradition by which the President of the Senate usually names such bodies. Charges flew back and forth -that Senator Wheeler was trying to pack the committee with opponents of the Attorney General, that the regular Republicans were preparing a whitewashing committee to be named by the President of the Senate...
Moscow ART THEATRE-The Russians come once more into the breach...
...paid the bills for 25 or 27 years, is suddenly forced out of a job and the brat brood is penniless. Immediately there is a general rallying round. The selfish brats map out lucrative business careers on the spot, matrimony is postponed and slender savings plugged into the breach in the domestic dyke...