Word: breaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hard and helpfully through the campaign, expected as his reward the Attorney Generalship. When that post went to another. Colonel Donovan's friends bitterly declared that President Hoover had turned him down because he was a Wet Catholic. Between Colonel Donovan and the President there is still a breach...
...Mexico. Divorced. Ethel Catherwood McLaren, Canadian gymnast, "most beautiful woman athlete of the 1928 Olympic Games"; from James Gillan McLaren of Toronto; in Reno. Grounds: nonsupport. She intends to marry one Byron Mitchell, San Francisco gymnasium instructor. Judgment Awarded. To Myrtle St. Pierre: $5,000 in her $200,000 breach of promise suit against David Hutton, husband of Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson; in Los Angeles. Hearing the verdict, Sister McPherson toppled and cracked her pate...
...once received $1,000,000 from a German agent at a midnight rendezvous in Trinity Churchyard, Manhattan. Further in his past lies an astounding record of crime and near-crime. At one time or another, Gaston Means, a sleuth by profession, has been indicted for breach of promise, impersonating an officer, fraud, bribery, forgery, murder. He once told a Senate committee that ''being indicted" was his business. Last November he was arrested for beating his wife...
...only through constructive criticism that we may develop. A college student, continually involved in the study of problems, assimilation of thoughts, and the acceptance and rejection of opinions has an unmeasured scope for the enlargement of his ideas. We breach a subject and test it with our preconceived surmise; we guide the image around our minds, contemplating it from all angles; and after much cogitation we conclude that it is a worthy conception, or no. This process, not solely of the classroom, molds our laws in every relationship. There is no doubt but that much mental pabulum has been left...
...altogether clear, does exist. It canvassed the members for a House Fund which, after two relatively unsuccessful attempts, was abandoned without further effort. The two tangible results of its activity are a radio and a ping pong table, but as a rule the Committee is more honored in the breach than in the observance. The students themselves have had a large hand in whatever functions have been proposed, without any interference from the Master. The various dances have been arranged by the members who have deemed such diversions advisable. The only affairs which are organized without the consent or instigation...