Word: breaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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West Point last week was shrouded in shame. Annapolis pointed a reproachful finger. Army officers throughout the land looked hurt and troubled at a major breach of military honor. Cause: Cadet Christian Keener ("Red") Cagle, West Point's famed football hero, had feet that would carry him miraculously through a broken field but they were, after all, feet of clay. By all the rules of the "Point," he had starred in 1928, had captained his team to victory in 1929, had won acclaim as "the greatest halfback since Red Grange" only because he had perjured himself...
...whole case should lead the Army to reopen peace and eligibility negotiations with Annapolis which, if they do, should lead to the healing of a big breach. It will bring the two institutions together faster than government intervention for it gets at the bottom of the break and abolishes a false athletic principle...
...seems only fitting that the Lampoon, which did much toward causing the breach in relations almost four years ago, should be the first to make an attempt to patch them up again. The CRIMSON, Harvard's daily, expresses the opinion that undergraduate feeling is more than cordial towards Princeton and hope that soon the quarrel can be settled...
Father Walsh ... has convicted TIME of indecency and breach of trust in the unprivileged publication of a blasphemous Soviet cartoon; of a deliberate and unethical suppression and distortion of the documentary evidence on religious persecution in Russia which he courteously submitted, at your request, for the March Si issue of this magazine...
...world has made much of the Centenary of Romanticism this winter. But until last week New York's only notice of the occasion was the appearance of Eggs Alfred de Musset on the menus of some of the more effete speakeasies. The Balzac Galleries rushed into the breach last week with a handsome pink catalog marked: 1830-1930, CENTENARY OF ROMANTICISM, and a memorial exhibition of the water colors and drawings of the late great Constantin Guys...