Word: interrupt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain's House of Commons, the art of conversation had hard going. Bookish Food Minister John Strachey (The Coming Struggle for Power) tried to interrupt a speech by another member, who suggested he "wait until I have finished." Retorted Strachey: "Keep your temper." Objected Conservative Sir Gifford Fox: "Surely that is not a ministerial expression. . . . Take your hands out of your pockets and sit down." Shouted Strachey: ". . . schoolboy stuff !" The Speaker finally got a little quiet. "There is tea being provided," he announced, "in the corridor outside...
Bonnard continues to live in his villa, visits Paris infrequently. He is up each day at 5, walks, putters about in his garden, does all his painting after lunch. When unwanted visitors interrupt his work he emerges blandly from his house, announces that "M. Bonnard is out," and shuts the gate...
Lavish Display. With cheerful informality she recalled how her office was in the habit of calling Andy May's office as often as three times a day. Once she had heard him interrupt a conversation to ask: "What about the $3,000?" Another time a company officer took an envelope containing $1,000 to Congressman May's office...
...delaying action began as soon as the Senate convened the next day. Louisiana's paunchy John H. Overton announced that he had noted "a number of errors" in the Congressional Journal, asked that it be read aloud. As soon as the clerks began to drone he began to interrupt-commas and semicolons, he believed, had been improperly used. Genially, wordily, he then discussed old Southern religion and kindred matters. He was still at it when the Senate recessed for the week...
Since all of the characters in Cornered are leading double lives, it is no surprise to see any one of them step out of the shadows with a gun in his hand. Murder in an adjoining room does not even interrupt their flow of conversation. Hero Powell is never in any doubt as to who are the desperate characters; they are all desperate. His question - and the audience's- is simply: which are the postwar fascists and which are the good guys? Cornered is that newer type of thriller with an up-to-the-minute political backdrop...