Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bula Benton Edmondson Croker,* second wife and widow of Tammany Chief Richard Croker, lost the famed Croker-McDonald suit involving the sale of 10,000 feet of Palm Beach ocean frontage. Mrs. Croker had sought to break a nine-year-old option that gave J. B. McDonald, Palm Beach realtor, the privilege of buying for $150 per foot the land now valued at over $700. To Mrs. Croker the difference will be $5,000,000, besides large attorney fees...
...Nine hundred of the penitentiary's 3,758 inmates rebelled, threw their food and plates about, broke windows, seized knives and forks. Ordered back to their cells, they bolted for the prison yard where they screamed curses, milled about frantically, became altogether unruly. When a fire hose failed to break them, guards opened fire with riot guns. One convict was killed, three fell wounded, the rest retreated to the cell blocks...
...left unmarked. Dyers' swans have one nick cut in their bills, Vintners' swans two nicks. The task is made no easier by the fact that parent swans are extremely aggressive. They can bite and they can kick. They can buffet with their bony wings hard enough to break a man's arm. Yet they must be caught and securely tied in the bottom of the boat before the cygnets can be nicked. To a Swanherd a male swan is not a cock swan, or a drake swan, or even a bull swan...
...help of other War survivors (his Croix de Guerre is for Verdun). Now aged 53, he continues in the French Senate, a potent member of the foreign affairs committee. His book about France's Mirabeau might be in a measure paralleled in the U.S. if Senator Borah should break the tradition of inartisticness in U. S. politics and write a frank, intelligent, amusing life of Tom Paine...
...were justly vexed at the report that a broken valve had ended an endurance flight at Minneapolis (TIME, July 8). That plane was driven by a seven-cylinder radial Axelson motor (developed last year), which carried the Axelson pride?a device equalizing valve lifts and minimizing the strains which break valves. What investigation showed actually stopped the flight was a nut which broke because a mechanic had not properly tightened a companion...