Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interesting indeed, but, as pointed out in the article, they hardly attract public attention as do the dramatic issues. All over New England people are watching the Rhode Island drama with nothing short of amazement, and the reason they are amazed is that they are witnessing the breakdown of law and order...
...dancing lounge. In a huge elliptical room whose shallow-bowl shape made it seem smaller than it was, 1,300 people could dine, dance and watch a show on a stage that moved up, down, sideways and around, had so many complicated mechanical gadgets that a last-minute breakdown forced the management to cut the opening show in half. The show itself, like the rest of the International Casino, was on the grand scale more calculated to appeal to the world-&-his-wife than to sophisticated socialites, included a juggler, performing poodles, athletic choruses and a troupe of new style...
This week this grim stronghold serves as the setting for a memorable first novel in which able descriptions of prison life about evenly balance the confused accounts of the breakdown of a sensitive prisoner. The story of Number 957 (name: Alexander William Mansell; sentence: life servitude; eyes: brown; height: 5 ft. 7 in.; age: 20; ruptures: none), Museum deals less minutely with its central character than with the stones which enclose him. The work of an Irish agitator who spent 14 years in Dartmoor and Parkhurst prisons, was twice sentenced to death, it is written in a sensitive narrative prose...
...sleek young Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden yawned that His Majesty's Government "propose to continue the policy of Non-intervention as long as the nations are willing to do so. It would be impossible to say what would be the Government's policy in case of a breakdown. That must depend on the circumstances. ... If they are so serious that Parliament must be summoned, it will be summoned...
Their Lordships did not thus succeed until after a public breakdown, apropos the bill, had been suffered recently in their House by the 18th Earl of Moray, a decorated War veteran whose behavior was such that British press associations at first suppressed the story altogether and even London correspondents cabled only garbled versions. What happened was that Lord Moray boasted of having "married an American girl in Paris," explaining: "Through the careful forethought of my mother-in-law, I can therefore get a divorce in Scotland or America!" From this the Noble Lord switched into totally irrelevant remarks about...