Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next station by the train he was driving, he would stay at the motorman's post and do the pushing, a feat mildly ticklish. With undergroundmen, including Lord Ashfield, perspiring profusely, "P. G." pushed successfully. "I assure you, Sir," cried flustered Lord Ashfield as they alighted, "that the breakdown experience you have had is one which one of our drivers might not encounter in a lifetime...
...Prime Minister Bonar Law, he maneuvered the great Lord Curzon, heavy with prestige and scintillant with dazzling intellect, completely out of the picture, becoming himself Prime Minister for the first time. Lord Curzon, heartbroken but even more amazed, ejaculated before bursting into the tears of a slight nervous breakdown: "Stanley Baldwin? A man of no consequence whatever...
...Cunliffe-Lister, Secretary for the Colonies (25 shares); and the Right Honorable Sir John Gilmour, Home Secretary (3,066 shares). "It cannot be healthy," said the peace spokesman, "if it is known that members of the Cabinet may be in a position to benefit personally, however slightly, from the breakdown of armament negotiations...
...looking and hit it on the back of the head with a stout club. If this has been the plan of the Italian dictator, Emperor Haile Selassie's telegram to Geneva is a good indication that he will not have to wait much longer for the desired nervous breakdown. No matter what answer the League makes to the walling message from Ethiopia, it is certain to pay the price of one of the major blunders of its history, and the price is deplorably stiff according to that organization's present shaky condition...
...persimmon." Vice President S. J. Maddin was a "pineapple.'' an other official a "gooseberry." Missouri-Kansas was called "lemons." The Chicago Stock Exchange was "blackberries," the New York Stock Exchange "dewberries." In 1931 Frank Parish began to grow suspicious. Spy Walker contrived to have a nervous breakdown the following year, hurried to Kansas City where Cities Service paid her $1,900 back salary and bonus, dismissed...