Word: broke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year ago Iran's touchy Riza Shah Palevi, King of Kings, broke off (for a month) Iran's diplomatic relations with France, because a French humorous weekly had punned "chat" (cat) with Shah. Last week, Paris papers reviewing the annual cat show did it again. So did the Shah...
...Crimson held their own until the close of the first half when the Tufts five broke a 13 to 13 deadlock and spurted on to gain a 22 to 15 lead at halftime. After that the Freshman fell behind as their defense folded up before the deliberate attack of the home team...
...could not bear to meet her eye. For they knew from the papers that that afternoon Mary's father had died at his home in Texas. After the show, chubby, fatherly Victor Moore, accompanied by tubby, motherly Sophie Tucker, went around to Mary's dressing room, gently broke the news, tiptoed out and left her alone...
...quay in Halifax had the U. S. Liner American Farmer to thank that their men were home to tell the tale of what happened when heavy weather struck the venturesome Nova Scotian three-master Fieldwood, bound from Hawkesbury, N. S. for Barbados. Two days out the pumps broke down. Water poured in through the racked hull to disable auxiliary engine and radio. Soon the captain, his crew of six and their mascot bulldog, Yummie, were marooned on the deck of the water-logged ship...
...Government employes and their families, off for a collective workers' Christmas holiday, jammed their way into seven obsolete wooden, second-class cars, equipped inside with long, hard, wooden benches. Seven classier steel cars completed the train. Rounding a curve on a downgrade near Tlaxcala, the locomotive broke an axle, jumped the track and spilled all 14 coaches down the slope. Toll: according to press reports, 40 dead, 51 injured; according to the Mexican Railway, four or five dead, 30 injured...