Word: breakers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weekly mob at the goal posts is considered as particularly choice territory by most experienced pick pocket artists. All people in the mob expect to be jostled and in the process of pushing it is extremly simple for an accomplished law breaker to extract a wallet, ciggrette case, or the like
...Senate Finance Committee's rapporteur, Abel Gardey, flayed him in a long speech which the Senate liked so well it ordered his words posted up on public billboards all over France. Senator Gardey charged that Vincent Auriol when he was Finance Minister had been such a promise-breaker that the point was finally reached at which Government "loans, both long and short term, are no longer placeable!" Gardey roared that investors, burned on ''Auriol Bonds,"* have now gone completely sour...
...Dennis Patrick Coyle, a coalminer at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., sang Me Johnny Mitchell Man and When the Breaker Starts Up Full Time, kicked up his heels while a couple of other miners sawed on fiddles...
...last event on the program, Columbia's Ben Johnson zoomed through to his third I. C. 4-A title, but Pitt's Edgar Mason placed second to give Pitt the team title with 30½ points to Columbia's 30. Only I. C. 4-A record-breaker was James Hucker of Cornell who cut 4/10 sec. off the 220-yd. low hurdles mark...
...Housatoute, there were about ten people cheering for Harvard in the 150-pound regatta; it was a heart-breaker, and even the rabidest Eli cheerers had to admit it would have been nip and tuck at the finish except for those crabs...