Word: broke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that, Democratic National Chairman James A. Farley, who so far in this campaign has been nearly as oblivious of John Hamilton's existence as of Alexander Hamilton's, broke down and roared: "Chairman Hamilton's statement . . . is just as ridiculous as other statements he has made during the last few weeks. His statement . . . is an insult to the intelligence of the American people...
...Alfred Dreyfus was the best-known prisoner ever to be confined on Devil's Island, the best-known fugitive is a gaunt, grizzled onetime French newshawk named Rene Belbenoit, who in 1921 broke into the Chateau de Bel AH near Paris and stole the necklace of the Countess of Entre-meuse. Sentenced to Guiana for eight years at hard labor, he escaped and was recaptured four times. He met Novelist Blair Niles on her visit to the colony. She was able to glean from his story enough material for two books which made them both famed...
Next day the battle opened in earnest, with General Emilio Mola personally commanding the White forces against Irun. They advanced under withering fire and at the last moment the Communist defenders of Irun broke and ran but not the Anarchists. With their philosophy of "direct action" it seemed to defending Anarchists that the thing to do before giving up Irun was to set torches to this ''Wool Capital of Spain" and burn it to the ground. Newly famed Anarchist Buenaventura Durruti sounded the keynote when he cried ''We are not in the least afraid of ruins...
Meantime, Favorite Howard took off from Wichita, was speeding over a Navajo reservation in New Mexico when Mister Mulligan's gas line broke. Out of control, the little white plane plummeted to the ground. Drawn by the crash, a number of Navajos ran up, edged uneasily about, not daring to approach the crumpled wreck-for superstitious reasons. After four hours one of them went for white rescuers. They found Maxine Howard with both legs broken, her husband with fractures of both legs, an arm and a brain concussion. Hospitalized, she soon gained strength while he lay close to death...
When Professor Edgell, dean of Harvard's Faculty of Architecture and an outstanding authority on Sienese painting, finally broke his longtime connection with Harvard University to take over a full-time job as Director of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, he realized that the Museum, which cannot compete with New York's Metropolitan in most departments, had acquired during the past 50 years the finest collection of Oriental art in the U. S. The section of Japanese art was particularly strong and the Curator of Asiatic Art, Kojiro Tomita, was one of the greatest authorities on Japanese...