Word: broken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...East's major conflict, Japan and China have neither broken off diplomatic relations nor declared war. Technically, Japan and China still remain "friendly" nations. Until last January a Japanese Ambassador remained in Hankow, until January Chinese Ambassador Hsu Shih-yin was at his Tokyo post. Even when Ambassador Hsu left, a Chinese charge d'affaires and the Embassy staff remained. Last week, however, even they departed...
...scores of injuries. The epicentre was located by seismologists under the North Sea, 250 miles northeast of London. The shocks were felt in Belgium. England, France, Germany, The Netherlands. In Belgium, which was hardest hit, damage was estimated at more than $1,000,000. Seismological instruments in Brussels were broken by the violence of the temblor. In Ghent, one wall of the Palais de Justice was badly cracked, and a pedestrian was killed by a streetcar running wild. At Ostend, a British police band gallantly marched on, playing while the street heaved...
Divorced. Onetime Pugilist Enzo Fiermonte, 30; by Madeline Force Astor Dick Fiermonte, 45; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Grounds: On various occasions he had 1) knocked her down, 2) broken her wrist, 3) hit her with his fist after a dance; been "exceedingly unpleasant.'' Same day, driving an automobile near Auxonne, France, Fiermonte smashed into a tree. Of his three women companions, one. an American girl, Marion Whitworth. was hospitalized...
...headed little Frou Frou makes the mistake of marrying a serious young lawyer, George Sartoris (Melvyn Douglas), with whom her sister (Barbara O'Neil) is in love. When, dissatisfied with the way she runs his household, he calls in the sister to assist her, Frou Frou is so broken-hearted that she runs away. Naturally, she does not run away alone; naturally, her escort is an irresponsible young gambler (Robert Young). Result of this situation is the inevitable duel. Result of the duel is Miss Rainer's best burst of blubbering since the one which...
...common stockholders, who received $3.80 last year, will get $2 in 1938, least since 1921. Meanwhile, final outcome of the big battle for C. & O. waited on the pleasure of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. As the Court reconvened this week, the deadlock was expected to be broken once & for all. But the Court reserved decision-and the generals are still in the trenches...