Word: interrupt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile the League's invitation reached the U. S. State Department in time to interrupt a friendly conference between outgoing Statesman Stimson and incoming Statesman Hull. Because the League asked a reply as soon as possible, the State Department obliged promptly with something which "did not sound as if it had been written by Mr. Stimson" according to officials of Japan's Foreign Office next day. Possibly written in part by Mr. Hull (though signed by Mr. Stimson) the State Department's cautious reply expressed "substantial accord" with the League's version of facts in Manchuria...
Human Hybrids-Howell S. England of Detroit told the unbelieving A. A. A. S. that, secreted in Russian Turkestan where people with sensibilities cannot interrupt them, Dr. Elie Ivanoff and two other Russian biologists are trying to cross humans and apes by artificially impregnating female chimpanzees. "At any time we may learn that he has produced the first hybrid," cried Howell S. England...
...statements of Technocracy's solution tor technological unemployment This was partly because Technocrat Scott threw about himself an air of scientific impersonality and profundity. Technocracy was an idea; he was its intelligence; his person and personality did not matter; listen and understand, if you can, but do not interrupt or pry into Howard Scott...
...first husband decided she looked like a pig, drank himself into a toper's grave. Her second husband was a humorous, bumbling fraud who preached a little (Carry used to interrupt his sermons), occasionally printed a newspaper, claimed the "brightest legal mind in Kansas." When bibliomancy revealed to Carry that she must demolish by "hatchetation" the blind tigers of Medicine Lodge, Kiowa, Enterprise; when she was jailed for being a nuisance and refused to return home until she had destroyed the nation's supply of "hell broth," Preacher Nation divorced her. Carry, considering herself "just a bulldog...
...longer will timid members of the masculine contingent be afraid of pouring out the full volume of their lusty lung power for fear the good looking girl across the aisle will think them crude; no longer will they be forced to interrupt the process of making a date with the one-and-only to join in the raucous shouts of the Big T., and under the new plan the men need not be afraid that some other fellow is beating his time, because the co-eds will be sitting in the balconies alone with out benefit of male Trojans...