Word: breach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe that all impartial observers will join with me in condemning you for a serious breach in printing without investigation or regard for the truth, an article concerning such a well known and widely respected figure and by giving publicity to a scurrilous jest, which would have been in bad taste eight months ago when the news was fresh. Apparently you have been waiting all this time to print it and now finally have found a flimsy excuse in a news item of no general interest...
Arthur William Bell, Bailiff of Guernsey, cogitated on the bench. "There seems to be no doubt," said Bailiff Bell, "that there has been a direct contravention of the Clameur de Haro. There was risk of a serious breach of the peace by virtue of the accused's behavior. I am obliged, therefore, to fine him the nominal sum of one shilling...
...went to Harbor Sanitarium to have out her appendix. Though cancellation of her passage to France helped to make the operation seem dramatically sudden, it was not; Authoress Joyce's room at the hospital had been engaged for weeks. Last week one Barbara ("Billie") Riley, cinema dancer, prepared a breach of promise suit for $100.000. In the pocket of her fiance Joe May. vaudevillian, Dancer Riley claimed to have found a picture of Peggy Joyce inscribed: "To My Baby Joe, Love?...
...reward he was made secretary of the Republican National Committee. Last week he complained of the press of other affairs, resigned. As always in the case of such leave-takings, he, the White House and G. 0. P. Chairman Claudius Hart Huston had to deny rumors of a breach in the party, had to down stories that the President had jettisoned his political friend...
...with humor, malice, intimate information, startling lies, as he has seldom before been attacked. Fascist officials have sharp orders to apprehend and silence Loud Speaker's perpetrators without delay or mercy, for ridicule is the one weapon no dictatorship can long withstand. Roman gossips, well aware of the breach over edu cation and other matters between Il Dnce and Pius XI, have slyly but of course quite erroneously suggested that Loud Speaker emanates from the same sanctified publishing plant as L'Osservatore Romano...