Word: disruption
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...town who has made a fortune in New York invites his boyhood friend to the city to be best man at his marriage to a Manhattan girl. But the small towner, known as "Pig Head" Ban croft, is suspicious of all folks from the city and he manages to disrupt the romance temporarily before he is convinced that virtue is not lost to New Yorkers. About this scenario Mr. Cohan has writ ten a comedy of much comic effectiveness, if of no especial dramatic merit. Robert McWade plays the South Bend grouch skillfully...
...upstairs" into politics. Woodrow Wilson, thoroughgoing theorist, wanted to disband the Princeton clubs, that there might be no "undemocratic" associations running transversely through the undergraduate bodies. The Harvard surveyors left the shoe on the other foot. Their drastic vertical division of the student body needed in no wise to disrupt the Harvard club system, seen as a valuable series of horizontal planes upon which men of kindred interest meet from choice, just as they do in after-college life...
THIS WOULD NOT DISRUPT CLUBS...
...moment, it seemed that the whole Zionist movement might disrupt. But, finally, after long nights of committee meetings, a guarded resolution was passed declaring Dr. Weizmann to be the moral leader of Zionists-and, by implication, if he care to be it, president...
...continued, had not failed-it had never had a fair chance.* He insisted that if Britain were to leave India, Moslem and Hindu differences would immediately disrupt the Empire. "When we see everywhere among the responsible leaders of Indian thought, the evidence of sincere and genuine desire to cooperate with us," the Secretary for India told their lordships, "we shall not be niggardly bargainers if we meet the generous friendship which is near and dear to our hearts. We no longer talk of holding the gorgeous East in fear, but ask India to march side by side with...