Word: interrupt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shoot Paul Doumer!" cried the prisoner (who in French courts may interrupt at any time). "I shot the President of the Republic of France! France listen to me! . . . When I came to France I saw people living in security and plenty and I thought of millions of Russian peasants groveling out their lives in starvation and misery. . . . My crime is a protest in the name of the enslaved Russian people...
...British underwriters and the owners of the Artiglio II (the Sorima Co. of Genoa) will divide whatever comes up from the Egypt. Speaking for Lloyd's, Sir Percy assured the Italians that the French libeling of the Artiglio IPs gold cargo was but a legal incident which would not interrupt further work or profit. To Commander Quaglia, the Italian Minister of Communications Costanzo Ciano dashed a wireless message: "Warmest congratulations from Premier Mussolini to yourself and all the crew...
...corpse, would you?" asked Showman Brady, looking sorrowfully from ator. "Well, I tell you, the legitimate stage is a corpse just about ready for the potter's field." He estimated that 70% of U. S. theatres were under foreclosure. At this point Oklahoma's Gore started to interrupt, but Showman Brady checked him. "There's not one in your State, Senator." said he. "Shakespeare's a lost art in Oklahoma...
...sign. It indicates interest. American audiences as a rule are much more apathetic than the Irish. Censorship in Ireland runs more in a political line than a moral one. Riots on such occasions as the exhibition of a national flag on a stage are not infrequent, and although they interrupt performances, they show that the audience is at least awake...
...reading period as in use at Harvard, but will in one way be in distinct advance of the system. A great part of the value of the Harvard reading period is lost for the reason that students enrolled in one or more courses in scientific or mathematical subjects must interrupt their mornings and afternoons of reading by attending classes and preparing work in those subjects. The Yale plan eliminates this disadvantage and, by permitting students in such courses to spend their time in doing reading in other fields, will enhance the general value of the reading period...