Word: breaks
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...wife after 27 years of marriage, brought suit against her new husband, Fred M. Terry, for 1) poisoning his former wife's mind ($25,000); 2) alienating her affections ($25,000); 3) corrupting her morals ($25,000); 4) destroying her innocence ($25,000); 5) causing her to break her marriage contract ($25,000); 6) mortification ($25,000); 7) loss of her society ($25,000); 8) loss of right to censure her actions...
...choice. Most impressive factor in the opening scenes is the costuming. There is a vast and authentic array of pegbottom trousers, long-beaked caps, bulldog shoes. Second scene is laid in front of Reunion Hall, a considerably fresher looking edifice than the building by that name today. The boys break into a song: The Proctor likes Whiskey. Let's get him frisky-Maybe he will buy drinks for the crowd. . . . As is customary in Triangle shows, the script is peppered with undergraduate lampoons on the Princeton faculty, curriculum and social system, which are more interesting to student audiences...
...Newport News went Mrs. Hoover to break a champagne bottle of water collected from the seven seas over the prow of a new Dollar liner, to declare: "I name thee President Hoover." Herbert Hoover III in the launching stand, shouted with excited glee, gave his grandmother's arm an impulsive shove. Declared R. Stanley Dollar: "Such is our answer to the rumor of a business depression...
Obviously a draft convention is not a treaty. What was adopted in Geneva last week for consideration in 1932 binds nobody, but may become the most important treaty ever to be signed. League officials estimated last week that the 1932 Conference "will break all records," prophesied that delegations from all over the world will total 3,000 statesmen, plus 2,000 wives & daughters, plus 1,000 correspondents...
...Vacuum Tube. While tubes with everything imaginable in them are still used in laboratory research, tubes with nothing in them are used in radio as amplifiers, in medicine as a source of X-rays, in the laboratory to photograph molecules, as guns to bombard and break down atoms. Last week new tube developments were reported...