Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twelve leading Paris newspapers last week devoted four times as much space to two remote Italians as to the break-up of the Geneva Naval Conference. Why? The French, as lovers of liberty, were interested in whether these two Italians were to be killed by a democracy for a crime of which they were innocent or whether they were actually guilty and had been responsible for an international campaign to defeat justice...
...these circumstances most prophets thought that the conference would soon break up; and the much heeded dean of British journalists, James L. Garvin, wrote with asperity in the Observer: "Men big enough and broad enough to be worthy of our two countries would sweep away all of this complicated haggling...
Before Michael I loomed 15 steps to Power, which must be taken alone. He hesitated, seemed about to break down into tears. Said Princess Helene, firmly: "Remember you are a king, and the son of kings."* Thus reminded of his royal duty, King Michael ascended the Tribune...
...Only organized capital," Governor Farrington, has said, "could have furnished progress at so rapid a pace. . . . They [the "first families" discussed above] own or operate nearly all the valuable lands. Will the time come when these large holdings will have to break up under the pressure of a growing population? No one can look that far into the future...
...horse, Tony, do their stuff once again, this time for the reluctant heart of a circus queen. Amongst other adventures possible in the woolly West, they break jail, lasso the girl off the back of a runaway elephant, write "I love you" into a wooden fence with bullets. The sheepish grin, buoyant acrobatics, baffled villain are on hand as usual. All in all, a good Tom Mixture...