Word: broke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soon bedlam broke out in the plants. Wives in automobiles pulled up to the plants sounding their horns continuously. Magnesium flares burned in the streets, movie cameras ground as the sit-downers stood up and marched...
Relieved when a Kansas City surgeon finished probing through his nose and throat, cutting out follicular tissue about his tonsils, Baritone Nelson Eddy elatedly squealed, "Doc, you're making a soprano out of me," broke into Ol' Man River. Gargled he, dancing a jig and forgetfully swallowing the throat wash: "It may seem ironical that a featured singer on a throat remedy radio program [Vick's] must have his throat attended to. ... I am reluctant to say that I am going to have four notes more range and . . . twice the volume...
...with which labor spys and executives unfolded their shabby exploits hints that the rule of pry and prowl and deceive will be dropped in the future. General Motors, the target of the current investigation, has oozed unsavory details. Not content with ordinary spying, its men stole union files, deliberately broke the Wisconsin law for registration of detectives, and jammed up union activities. Some of its workers in Lansing read in yesterday's paper that all the officers of their union were detectives, a triumph for the Pinkerton Agency...
...struggle for the Basketball League lead scheduled for Tuesday between Adams and Lowell was postponed until Friday by the Bellboys. The other games were played on time: Kirkland rode over Dunster, 18-8; Winthrop nosed out Eliot, 12-9; and Leverett broke into the win column with a 10-7 victory over Dudley...
...company as a gas salesman. He still had the gas half of Los Angeles Gas & Electric, which is a subsidiary of Pacific Lighting Corp., but the electric business had been sliced off clean. "It was forced on us," said he bitterly. "There was nothing we could do. It broke my heart...