Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lincoln. Augustus Orloff Thomas* of Maine, head of the world's federated education associations, invoked the Lindbergh "sporting blood," "sporting sense," "sportsmanship"?and also that of France, whom he pictured forgetting War debts when Colonel Lindbergh arrived?as " 'the wooden horse' by means of which we can break into the walled city of human hatreds?of racial and national jealousies...
When wealthy city people move to the country for the summer, their homes, though usually closed, do not remain untenanted. The furniture may be clothed in white muslin dust suits; only the window-buzzing of imprisoned flies may break the silence of the shaded rooms; but in the vacant dwellings a host of people and personages continue their existence without regard to season-smiling the same smiles, making the same gestures, staring perennially in fixed directions...
...with performing an inhuman act you have spoken humane words. I do not wish that blood should be shed by my fault. I do not wish that civil war should break out in our country. "I surrender for the sake of France. I surrender for the memory of my boy, knowing full well that the men who are behind me could create bloodshed and trouble. I do not wish that others should feel the grief I have known. I surrender to the cry of Vive la France." From below M. le Préfet Jean Chiappe cried, "I thank...
...hearing proceeded from 10 a.m. until midnight, almost without a break. Then Assassin Kovenko was sentenced to life imprisonment, the Court, however, recommending that this be commuted to 15 years. In Moscow. Promptly, the Soviet Workers' Gazette, Moscow, headlined: "Unheard-of mild sentence, which Kovenko hears with beaming face. Murder for which the Polish Government is responsible covered by Polish court...
...splitting explosion, followed by the crackle of flames. From each side of the plane leaped two burning figures. They rolled in the wheat, saving their lives. Thus, ended the brief flight of Capt. Georges Pelletier Doisy and his navigator, M. Gonin, who had set out to break, by flying 4,400 miles from Paris to India, the world's non-stop record (held by Flyers Chamberlin and Levine...