Word: breaches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were enormous spreading headdresses of black feathers. They began a kind of dance, worked themselves up through weird contortions to a "terrific frenzy" that was accompanied by blood-curdling yells and "dirgelike singing of the women." The visit of the Prince had the effect of healing a long-standing breach between the Usutu (Royalists) and the Mandhlakazi (the ones of great strength), and together they came to offer tribute to the Great King...
...That it is a breach of pledge; for it was well understood, when the 16th (Income Tax) Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, that there would be no violation of the privacy of the affairs of persons or corporations...
...claim of that period to be known as the Age of Faith. Perhaps the most striking feature of the time was the survival and even the re-juvenescence of the Inquisition. It was temporarily in the hands of the Methodists, and the Catholics were naturally indignant at this breach of tradition. There seems to have been general sympathy with this protest; for the Americans have always tried to be a legal nation ever since Edmund Burke told them that they were such, and so public opinion criticised the Methodist tribunals for not having a consistent body of Canon...
...beneath the elms. The college secretary has permitted a public statement that the college officers fear that returning graduates will drink, unlawfully and riotously. An official college paper tells us also that the college authorities wish the visiting graduates to refrain, in New Haven, from any public or private breach of the law. These unflattering suggestions have been published in many newspapers. Dr. Angell thus seems to say: T deplore your coming. I am anxious lest you set a bad example to our young people. I am afraid that you will break a law which I love and respect...
...ground for an action of battery, and to walk arm in arm is almost immoral. The playful spirit in which you live on your Rousseauistic stage is here relegated to children below the age of 14 years, and any signs of horseplay are taken as evidence of a breach of the Volstead...