Word: broke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fire to the store, radio station, warehouse, and as we put out we could see several houses burning," said Physician-Commissioner Fields. "We "hoped to find a vessel at sea which would take us to Nassau. However, after cruising several hours we ran out of fuel, and our motor broke down. We drifted for four days at sea without food or water...
Ferdinand ("Freddie") Fisher, 34, was born and reared on a farm near Garnavillo, Iowa. His father, whom he still calls "the best butter maker in Iowa," wanted him to play the piano, compromised on a clarinet, but Freddie says he always broke the reed just before school band practice. When he was 21 and able to keep a reed intact, Freddie bought a dinner jacket and got a job in an Orpheum Circuit band. Later Freddie Fisher thought up the name "Schnickelfritz" (German slang for silly fellow), and assembled five men to play a permanent date in a tavern...
Freed. Writer Ernest C. Booth, 39, from Folsom Prison, after serving 13 years of a 25-year sentence for robbery; in Sacramento, Calif. Attempting, in 1926, to escape from the San Quentin Prison Hospital, Convict Booth fell, broke both legs. During his convalescence he started writing, subsequently turned out a novel, Stealing Through Life, and a short story, Ladies of the Mob, which was printed in American Mercury and made into a cinema. For the next two-and-a-half years Writer Booth will be under parole, the conditions of which are that he must remain in Eldorado County, Calif...
...with a score of 100 straight targets from the 19-yd. line; in his first championship tournament, upholding the tradition that an "unknown from nowhere'' usually wins the title, never held twice by the same person; at Vandalia, Ohio. Tied for second place were eleven gunners, who broke 99 out of 100, a score which would have been good enough to win 31 of the previous 37 annual tournaments...
...named his gubernatorial mansion. Said he, "I wanted a suitable name, so I wrote to all the Governors in the United States and Canada. Some replied they called their mansions "The Oaks," others "The Pines," and some "The Elms." The first night I moved in the bed broke down, so I called the place "The Berries...