Word: breaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Afghans are probably the world's most violent people. They kill strangers for a small breach of etiquet. When Afghan kings really dislike a man, they boil him in oil or strangle him with chains. The only possessions an Afghan keeps clean are his rifle, his sling of cartridges, his short dagger and his bayonet sword...
...greatest burdens of Manager Carte's harassed life. He had brought them together four years before, had helped them make the biggest names in Victorian theatrical history. But all his vast reserves of tact and persuasion could not prevent the immensely successful but entirely antipodal collaborators from a ruinous breach over £140 worth of carpet eleven years later...
...even Franklin Roosevelt could be counted on to convince the U. S. Congress that such an expenditure was justified, but England remains England and His Majesty's Government felt not the slightest need to send Acting Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin into the breach last week. Instead, fingering his Old Etonian tie, the husband of Lady Diana (The Miracle) Manners arose from the Government bench. In his own right Alfred Duff Cooper, M. P., is Financial Secretary at the War Office and a special protege of Conservative Leader Baldwin. When Patron Baldwin was being attacked with special savagery by the Press...
...needed to buy vital food imports next winter-Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht recently decreed a sweeping moratorium (TIME. June 25). Last week British threats of retaliation broke the moratorium as far as British holders of Dawes and Young loan bonds are concerned (see p. 15). This breach in the Moratorium Front looked certain to widen before onslaughts at once launched by the U. S. and French Embassies in Berlin. There seemed to be only one answer for Germany: controlled inflation, bulwarked by government control of the Fatherland's whole economic life. While the Press kept up a fanfare...
...Post and Gatty flew around the world, the Lindbergh baby was kidnapped, Herbert Hoover was defeated, Calvin Coolidge died while the radio blackamoors recited their ponderous and diverse tale. It took a whole year for Andy to realize the iniquity of Madame Queen, who punctuated their alliance with a breach of promise suit in 1931. The luckless love affair of Amos and Ruby Taylor, begun in 1928, has not yet reached a conclusion. For six years the Fresh Air Taxicab Co. has puttered in and out of the story. In all. 166 characters have appeared in the script...