Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Europe. And last week came news that, despite the ravages of a long illness, the pale and slender young librettist had finished a first draft of her end of the work. She had begun it in her Greenwich Village home ("narrowest house in Manhattan"), abandoned it during a breakdown, lately brought it to completion at a retreat in the woods of Maine. A lightsome, fanciful opera this Henchman will surely be, judging by the quality of Deems Taylor's compositions to date (Through the Looking Glass, The Siren Song, The Chambered Nautilus, etc.). A joyous, spirited and perhaps abandoned...
Foreigners remember M. Deschanel chiefly because-on May 24, 1920-he leaned from a window of the Presidential train, fell out clad in pajamas, suffered a nervous breakdown, resigned the Presidency on September...
Last week "Frau von Tschaikovski," who has been suffering from a well nigh complete nervous breakdown, was reported to be nearing convalescence. She declared that she lost consciousness after the volley which killed her family and wounded her, and awoke to find herself jolting along in the peasant cart of one Tschaikovski, a Red guard, who later told her that he was a member of the firing squad but had subsequently covered her with a pile of rags, while the corpses of the murdered Romanoffs were dragged away to be destroyed by acid...
...Because the Locarno Pacts do not come into effect until Germany enters the League; and because Sir Austen is suspected of having secretly promised Premier Briand to help "pack" the League Council against Germany. As everyone knows, the ensuing squabble over Council seats resulted in the breakdown of the League session specially called to admit Germany and the postponement of the whole matter until the regular September League session...
Action. After the breakdown of the main proceedings the following highly important action was taken before the delegates returned home: The Germans agreed to leave their application for membership before the League instead of withdrawing it. The signatories of the Locarno Pacts signed and issued a communique...