Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have begun. George V knows how many of his subjects' lives Mr. Gandhi saved by dramatically withdrawing the seven-day ultimatum he had sent to the Viceroy, Lord Reading, demanding independence for India within that time. Mr. Gandhi chose to rebuke Indians for what he called their folly and breakdown of discipline, canceled his whole movement, became temporarily unpopular and, as Baron Lloyd says: "Then we put him in jail. You know the rest...
...Effectively they dramatized the evils of liquor, exhibited homes broken, lives wrecked by the Curse of Drink. The Wets, on the defensive, got poor publicity. Adoption of the 18th Amendment reversed the positions. The Wets took to the attack, sensationally dramatized the "failure of Prohibition," exhibited the law's breakdown, stressed bloody methods of enforcement. As defenders of the system their own efforts had brought to pass, the Drys lost something of their old aggressiveness, found themselves fighting with blunt weapons...
Pope Pius XI told an audience of 200 priests: "It is not uncommon now to hear very young children call their fathers 'stupid'' and to hear adolescent youths describe their parents as 'encumbering bag-gage.' This breakdown of domestic discipline constitutes one of the most urgent problems of the present...
Pundit, patron, promoter of the New York Antique show is white-haired, amiable George W. Harper, Wesleyan graduate, onetime corporation lawyer and Belmont Estate attorney, rabid antiquarian. Four years ago Mr. Harper had a nervous breakdown, was ordered by his doctors to give up his business, travel, find and ride a hobby. He already had a hobby: antique furniture. With his wife he went to London hunting Hepplewhites. He arrived just as a great antique exhibition, organized by the London Daily Telegraph, opened at the Crystal Palace. Never before had Mr. Harper seen so many works of art assembled...
Tristram Orlander, author whose genius never came to flower, found himself not once but twice. The first time was in Granada, when he was recovering from a nervous breakdown brought on by an unsuccessful love-affair. Just for something to do, he one day inquired for himself at the expensive Hotel Boabdil, thinking he would thus get a sight of the hotel register, see who was there. To his dismay the porter said the gentleman was in and was expecting him, led Tristram to a room. An elderly stranger rose to greet him: it was Tristram himself, but middleaged...