Word: broke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chairman-since there doesn't seem to be enough room on the floor for the 'Old Guard' delegation, let them sit on the platform." The debate that then began was broken off for supper, was resumed and continued bitterly until 2 a. m. When the meeting broke up the issue was still undecided. After the delegates had slept on it, they were no nearer agreement. Someone struck up the Internationale and the delegates rose and sang. David Lasser, head of the Socialist-Communist Workers Alliance (union of unemployed) shouted to his comrades, pointing to Louis Waldman...
...after that mild little man had shouted one of his high-pitched, unintelligible addresses into a microphone, onetime President Monroe Elmon Dodd of the Southern Baptist Convention exclaimed: "I can only say I wish we were as good Christians as this man." Finally Northern President Franklin's voice broke with emotion when from James Grover McDonald, onetime League of Nations High Commissioner for German Refugees, he accepted a challenge for U. S. Baptists to carry on the work of Roger Williams, founder...
...Documentary Films" are what the modern cinema calls non-fiction pictures, exclusive of newsreels, travelogs and similar shorts. When made by governments, as most documentary films are, they are usually interlarded with propaganda. Typical were the pictures shown along with The Plow That Broke the Plains in Washington's Mayflower last fortnight: an excerpt from The Triumph of the Will, directed for Adolf Hitler by Leni Riefenstahl (TIME, Feb. 7); an institutional reel called Midi dealing with the French railways; a Russian Harvest Festival which depicts the Ukraine as a merry place; Color Box and The Face of Britain...
What made The Plow That Broke the Plains news last week, a year after it was begun and weeks after it was completed, was that the Federal Government could find no satisfactory way to distribute it to the country. According to Director Lorentz, Hollywood had been suspiciously noncooperative from the start. Most cinema producers frankly hate the New Deal and are therefore in no mood to handle the distribution of a New Deal film at any price, even if it is as effective and exciting as The Plow That Broke the Plains. Their ostensible reason for keeping this "propaganda" film...
Dore Strauch, a Berliner of advanced ideas unhappily married to a conservative husband, fell in love with a Berlin doctor, also married, also unconventional. Dr. Ritter's dream was to get away from it all, live a Rousseauistic life on an uninhabited island. They broke the news to their respective mates (whom they unsuccessfully tried to bring together, in compensation), collected their gear and set off for Floreana. According to Dore Strauch. it is not true that they had all their teeth pulled before they left.* Dr. Ritter had had his out some time before, and for a different...