Word: interrupt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TALK BUT I HATE TO INTERRUPT GROUCHO. I SPOKE IN PUBLIC LAST YEAR IN PORTLAND WHEN I ASKED FOR A RAISE IN SALARY BUT I DON'T THINK ANYONE HEARD ME. I MAKE A PRACTICE OF SPEAKING EVERY TIME CHICO MAKES A GRAND SLAM, SO YOU CAN LOOK FOR ANOTHER SPEECH IN 1937. REGRET I CAN'T GET ZEPPO IN THIS WIRE...
Threading his way through congested Sunday traffic near Chicago last week, many a motorist with an automobile radio heard a voice interrupt the program with such comments as: "All motorists from Joliet bound for points east of Hammond should use U. S. Highway No. 6 to avoid a detour on Route No. 30 between New Lenox and Frankfort...
...Manner. Two unique fictional devices, in addition to the biographies of famed individuals, interrupt the stories of these people in their rapid rises and catastrophic falls. One is the Newsreel, an effective muddle of headlines, fragments of speeches, news stories, popular songs. Each about a page long, they serve to fix the time of the action as well as to suggest the general moral and intellectual climate of the U. S. during the period. Thus the Newsreel that follows a chapter telling of Margo Dowling's miserable marriage includes a song that was popular at the moment, headline reference...
Only one joker may interrupt this swap: If "any exceptionally large change" is made in the relative value of U. S. and French currency, either nation may call off the entire agreement within 30 days...
Connecticut-born and bred, Noah Webster was the son of a sturdy farmer, a veteran of the French & Indian Wars, who mortgaged his farm in order to send his promising son to college at Yale. The Revolution did not interrupt Noah's education: what soldiering he did was a holiday task. One summer he marched with his father and two brothers to Ticonderoga to help repel Burgoyne's invasion, was too late to see any fighting. After his graduation his father gave him an eight-dollar Continental bill (worth about two in silver) and sent...