Word: breakers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week at the General Assembly in Edinburgh a new Moderator was elected. Rev. Dr. Lauchlan MacLean Watt of Glasgow Cathedral. He presided over the Assembly while delegates disapprovingly discussed a proposal to unite with the Church of England, and while one of them called Scot Ramsay MacDonald a "Sabbath-breaker" for holding "more Cabinet meetings on the Lord's Day than any one of his predecessors...
...honor of the U. S. Government was dragged through the dust last week and its good name trampled on the London streets. Even at home President Roosevelt was flayed as a breaker of contracts who had sullied his nation's integrity before the world...
...them for a year as Director General. Labor? Senator McAdoo had raised rail workers' pay $875,000,000 back in 1918. Agriculture? Senator McAdoo, as its first chairman, put the Federal Farm Loan Board on its feet. Deficits? Senator McAdoo, in the Treasury, had piled up a record-breaker of $14,000,000,000. Bonus? Senator McAdoo, as head of the War Risk Insurance, had written policies for more than $35,000,000,000. Reconstruction Finance Corp.? Senator McAdoo had headed War Finance Corp. after which R. F. C. was patterned. Against such massed omniscience few Senators could prevail...
...should be Gene Venzke, 23-year-old graduate this spring from the Pottstown, Pa., High School. Last winter Venzke, who used to run to work in a Reading, Pa., steel mill, ran an indoor mile in 4:10, breaking Nurmi's record by 2 sec. Another world record breaker is George Spitz, Jr., 20-year-old sophomore at New York University. At a Boston meet last winter he jumped 6 ft. 8½ in. in the eccentric manner which he acquired practicing at home, in Flushing, L. I. Almost certain of a place on the U. S. team last...
...exhibition of these pictures is sensational. But sensational not only for its novelty, but because the "Surrealistes" often deliberately purpose to shock and surprise, so that you may be deprived of all preconceived standards open to new impressions. They intend to shock, as the safe-breaker might pare the skin off his finger-tips, so that his supersensitized bared flesh might the better feel the fumblers fall; to shock as the bull-fighter first uncovers the nerves of his audience by the wilful and barbaric shedding of blood and disemboweling of defenseless horses, so that the supersensitized public might...