Word: breach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dempsey-Gibbons fight and the rodeo, July 4. Said the telegram in part: 'These are events of red-blooded sport and the invitation is extended to a red-blooded sportsman.'" Manuel Herrick, former Representative from Oklahoma: " I entered suit in the Supreme Court of D. C. for breach of promise against Miss Ethelyn Chrane, a young woman who was at one time my secretary. I asked $50,000 damages, alleging that the plaintiff by refusing to keep a promise to marry me had 'brought me into ridicule and contempt' and had prevented me from paying court...
Upton Sinclair, Socialist novelist, was arrested for " breach of the peace and obstruction of traffic," at San Pedro (port of Los Angeles). There had been a strike of marine transport workers in San Pedro. It was charged to the I. W. W. Los Angeles (which probably comes nearer to being a non-union city than any other place of its size; memories of the McNamara dynamiting help to keep it so) threw a number of I. W. W. members into a prison stockade. Sinclair summoned a protest meeting on Liberty Hill, and started to read Article I of the Constitution...
...love?the revival of an ancient and baseless scandal about Stella herself?made the issue plain. Stella saw that Laurel wasn't her kind? that she herself was the handicap on Laurel's becoming "nice." So she gave Laurel up in the only way that could bring a definite breach between them?let Stephen divorce her and married the wreck of an ex-society-riding-master, a worthy whom Laurel couldn't bear. She smashed Laurel's faith in her, and told her she was going to South America with her new husband. But she didn't. The novel ends...
Officers who regard reading the Constitution of the United States to be a breach of the peace...
...Dail supported its President, William Cosgrave, in his stand against De Valera. Cosgrave said that the republican proposals were unacceptable and a breach of the Constitution. He would not enter into further communications with De Valera, but, nevertheless, he would welcome any real Irish peace on the basis of the Free State Treaty with Great Britain...