Word: breach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have concluded a deal whereby $25,000,000 worth of U.S. electric apparatus may be sent to Russia within the next five years. Thus was pointedly marked a commercial rapport between the two countries. The Russian press was jubilant over the deal; Economic Life of Moscow talked about a breach in the ''credit blockade...
...Advancement of Atheism, agitating against that law, was arrested for violating a city ordinance prohibiting the use of the name of the diety except in "veneration or worship". He was tried on the different charge of disturbing the peace, and fined for distributing printed material "calculated to provoke a breach of the peace". Rather than pay the fine, he is now in jail serving out $26.40 at the rate of $1.00 a day. And to cap the climax, the mayor of Little Rock answers a telegram of protest. "No atheist will be permitted to maintain headquarters in Little Rock...
...undoubtedly lain in divided responsibility and accumulating confusion of records rather than in any individual delinquency. Responsibility is bound to float rather uncertainly from one to another of an elective body of student officials; the custom of changing all class and college officers annually but widens, of course, the breach for error. But the mere fact that blame lies in the system rather than on specific heads does not mitigate the ill-effects of the resulting inefficiency...
...Into the breach jumped Colonist Walter Leighton Clark. A comparative newcomer to Stockbridge, Colonist Clark had been a businessman. Not until he was over 50 did he begin to paint. Last week, his portrait of beautiful Louise Osborne, herself a musician and a Stockbridge colonist, was judged among the best. In 1923, his growing interest in art led him to found the Grand Central Art Galleries in the Manhattan railroad station. He wished to offer ambitious U. S. artists an opportunity to exhibit their work without sending it abroad...
...Brooklyn Bar Association. Wrote Mr. Serri: "By indirection, with almost unspeakable vulgarity . . . [Judge Atwell] practically approved and incited the repetition by the officers of such conduct in this city. I doubt whether in all judicial annals there can be found such open incitement to public disorder and breach of the peace as the words of this judge. ... I submit to you that for a Judge to act as an understudy of Providence and deliver pronouncements which are nothing but the expression of his private prejudices . . . reflecting a mixture of prejudice, naivete, ignorance and abuse of power difficult to match...