Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Came constables. They sought to break down the barricade by backing against it a ponderous auto-street sweeper. But wine bottles and water carafes hurtled from the restaurant, knocked out four policemen...
...Reaching the wire fence they could not enter. Politely they phoned credentials (by a telephone at the outer gate); firmly they insisted that they were authentic firemen; were at length given entrance. Mrs. Ward Leigh they found seated before a large sirloin steak. Querulously she told them not to break the glass of her house while extinguishing the fire, then returned casually to consume more meat...
Included in the program of the conference are many lighter diversions to break up the serious work of the meeting. Athletics will be participated in each afternoon, with Coach William Wood of Wesleyan in charge. Baseball, swimming, and tennis are planned. Music and stunt performances also play a part in the conference program...
...frightened girls were boarders. There was a reason for her mad, midnight revelling. She had caught her pupils having surreptitious feasts in their cubicles. She wished to show them that she, their principal, could give much better feasts than they could. Then, Miss Spence was certain, they would break her rules no more. That wise, surprising and effective banquet occurred many years ago, in the winter...
...having to leave alone the unguarded and unlocked wealth of, say, the Federal Treasury. Told that the University had news on Monday, it is not strange that Boston's energetic papers should make some effort to beat their rivals. Not only does the Bulletin not get its "even break," but the placid life of Boston journalism is destroyed. And more serious than this, the University, though not, of course, to blame for the questionable conduct of the Traveler, American, and Transcript is put into the position of the well-meaning but somewhat unpractical bank offered as a horrible example above...