Word: breach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ever had his hat ordered from his head by M. Danguy in the fencing room will ever forget it. And those who have absently whistled a tune in the same sanctum will remember that such an exhibition of contentment is a breach of fencing etiquette. It was in the observance of such by-laws of his game that M. Danguy made himself known as much as in his ability to give to others something of his own skill. He will be missed by those who knew him, and their good wishes follow him to his retirement...
Sued. James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, husband of Mary Josephine ("Polly") Lauder Tunney; by a Mrs. Katherine King Fogarty, divorced wife of a Fort Worth plumber; for breach of promise; for $500,000. Claimed Divorcee Fogarty: she met Tunney at Hot Springs, Ark., in October 1924; next year, and later still, he "promised to marry her." Claimed Fisticuffer Tunney (at Brioni, Italy): he only knew Mrs. Fogarty slightly; never intimately; never asked her to marry him. "It must be a joke," said he. Developments...
...room space that is being felt in increasing measure in the University offices. The present class room space is entirely inadequate as has been previously pointed out in various reports from the University offices and the new found space will serve in a slight degree to fill the temporary breach...
...humorous writer is an increasingly hard one. If we are merely mild and agreeable the critics cry at us: 'Have you nothing to say? Have you no fierceness, no anger, no satire?' They little know, Whenever we do say anything, it is considered propaganda, or else a breach of taste...
...Fugazy. Fugazy long had been the most formidable of Rickard's rivals. He has never reached the heights, but he has threatened. In signing Dempsey he gained as an asset the most magnetic personality in the fight game today. Dempsey proved as much when he rushed into the breach upon Rickard's death and by sheer ballyhoo turned the Sharkey-Stribling bout in Florida from a certain failure into a financial success. The Dempsey-Fugazy firm will begin with a lightweight championship battle−Sammy Mandell, the title holder, probably against Ray Miller of Chicago...