Word: breach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ruritania and his British cousin, Rudolf Rassendyll, who are as alike as identical twins. When the king is kidnaped by his conniving brother Michael (Robert Douglas), who has designs on the throne, Rassendyll obligingly shaves off his mustache, rivets a monocle into his profile and steps into the royal breach. After much leaping from balconies, swinging from trees, swimming across moats, charging across drawbridges and assorted gunplay and swordplay, Michael gets his comeuppance, the king is restored to his throne, and Rassendyll returns to England, enthroned in the heart of beautiful Princess Flavia (Deborah Kerr...
This year, the University has made an ill-advised exception to that rule, for Ivy is presenting the same sort of series BFS showed last year. We must excuse the Administration for this breach however, for it made its commitment last spring, before Ivy Films broached its closed series plan, and cannot reverse itself now. We hope however that Cine's current contract will be its last. And we hope that the University will continue its policy of "looking with disfavor" on applications to import those who merely add to undergraduate competition without supplying any new or different services...
These phrases are normally followed by a recount of some breach of discipline, or simply by the words, ". . . such action...
What Next? The Marty and Tillon purge is evidence of deep unrest in the French Communist Party. Its discipline and security system seemed seriously weakened. One piece of evidence: news of the purge leaked out to non-Communist papers before it was announced-a serious and unusual breach of party security. By eliminating the two old firebrands, Maurice Thorez-who is expected to come home from Russia next month-may be preparing a shift in the French party line. Probable new directions: 1) playing down of strikes and riots, which lost the party thousands of followers; 2) playing...
Shown courting Rachel Wardle as well as being haled to court in the Widow Bardell's breach-of-promise suit, Mr. Pickwick (George Howe) counts for much more on the stage than he does in the book. This means-and it is the measure of where Dickens suffers most-that Mr. Pickwick counts for much more than his gloriously Dickensian servant, Sam Weller. The trial scene, too, though it is made the climax of the evening, has been shorn of its full comic grandeur, with Mr. Serjeant Buzfuz's appearance in it all too brief. But Stiggins...