Word: breaks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...previously refused to break his six-year rule of silence even to speak at this birthday party...
...consuming personal ambition had been thwarted. In New York he had campaigned several times in vain to be elected mayor or governor; his papers could make or break small officials, but they never got Hearst farther than two unspectacular terms in the House. In 1922 Al Smith refused to run on the State Democratic ticket with him and at last Hearst knew he would never be President. And so after 27 years in the East he moved back to California and began to surround himself with a grandeur that no other private citizen has ever matched in U. S. history...
...Broadway, as in Chicago, the swing Mikado became overnight a smash hit. But Broadway was not seriously shaken. For in spite of all temptations to run wild with syncopations, the Federal Theatre's Mikado remains an English one. Four times the show's husky-duskies break out into a rash of swing, but otherwise they play The Mikado straight. They provide a pleasant, professional performance that can stand on its own legs; but with the D'Oyly Carte troupe providing a subtler and more finished show a few blocks away, daring would have been better than diffidence...
...Wall Street Journal this week headlined: BUSINESS IN 15-WEEK SIDEWISE MOVE; BREAK EXPECTED TO BE ON 'UP' SIDE. Evidence to support this conclusion abounded. Such sensitive indexes as scrap steel and commodity prices were up. Steel production at 55.1% of capacity was near the year's peak. Automobile output rose, National Distillers Products Corp. filed the first large industrial bond issue ($22,500,000) since November. And the Dow-Jones industrial stock averages climbed to 149.49, a gain of 13 points from the year's low on January...
...hardly fair to call our movement a 'revolt'," Mrs. J. Anton DeHaas, wife of J. Anton DeHass, William Ziegler Professor of International Relationship, said yesterday in referring to the break in the ranks of the D.A.R. as revealed several days...