Word: disruptions
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...salary plus expenses he is allotted a lump sum with which he hires assistants and buys supplies, pocketing what is left. That a janitor is no personage to trifle with has twice been discovered by New York's fiery Mayor LaGuardia: once, when the janitors threatened to disrupt his program of free school concerts by demanding $15 fees for services; again, when one of them refused to let him move a voting booth into a school-house after hours...
...again he found her married to a noble Russian pervert, became her lover, recovered his emotional health but not his ambitions, spent an idyllic summer in Germany. Skeptical and enlightened as he was, he could not believe that the War could be serious or prolonged, or that it would disrupt his life with Zena. He learned it when the authorities unceremoniously loaded the pair on a train, shipped them across the frontier...
...could not disrupt the systematized entertainments that were part of the cure...
...Dispositions." This sort of unwitting evocation of magical influences is due to the savage's almost universal belief that mere mental attitudes may disrupt the peaceful course of affairs. He thus pays great attention to what Professor Levy-Bruhl calls dispositions. Quarrels are widely believed to set up baneful influences which may harm the whole tribe. Hence politeness and affability are at a premium. Among some American Indians it is not customary to refuse any gift asked for by a guest, lest his displeasure work some ill. When the Fiji Islanders set out a new turtle net, the head...
Last week the New Deal, looking over its unwieldy majority in Congress, decided it was time to go back to the comfortable security of the old gag rule which required a majority to disrupt. Speaker Byrns had the job of getting the change approved by the Democratic caucus. He might have had difficulty had he not offered a concession: the House leadership would allow a vote on the Bonus early in the session. No more persuasion was needed. The caucus plumped 225 to 60 for Gag Rule. Next day it was put to a vote in the House. The Republicans...