Word: broke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Point, suddenly and amazingly indomitable cadets poked the noses of machine guns from around splintered crags of the Alcázar, pressed the triggers and started a chug-chug of bullets most of which seemed to go low and catch the militia in the legs. As the Red charge broke and failed on the 59th day of the siege, its commander, Lieutenant Colonel Luis Barcelo, was carried off the field with a bullet in his leg, still crying with Spanish braggadocio: "Everything is going fine!" Explained one of his friends, Spanish Muralist Luis Quintanilla, Ernest Hemingway's good friend...
...outside the editorial offices of Diario de la Marina. Meanwhile a truck parked in front of the newspaper El Pais blew up with an explosion heard for miles, wrecked El Pais's two-story building, shattered the Church of Nuestra Señora de Monserrate across the street, broke glass storefronts for a distance of six blocks, killed four, hurt 27, and was credited with having done $200,000 damage. Police at once threw a cordon around the area, discovered the touring car full of dynamite and disconnected its time-clock before it could explode. "Today's dynamiting...
Before the degree-granting ceremony was well under way, a fresh torrent of rain descended on the Yard. Still confident in his meteorologist, President Conant kept stolidly on. A concerned alumnus broke through Secret Service men to President Roosevelt, whose velvet chair had become sodden, offered an umbrella which Mr. Roosevelt smilingly declined. Moment later birdlike Jerome Davis Greene, member of the Harvard Corporation and Director of arrangements for the Tercentenary, bustled up anxiously with a gold-headed umbrella. The President again declined, turned to watch Rome's Professor Corrado Gini break a well-publicized rule...
...State Convention of the Loyal Order of Moose. Past Moose Director General James John Davis, long-time (1921-30) Secretary of Labor, and now Senator from Pennsylvania, recalled that Muncie's George Alexander Ball, millionaire fruit jar manufacturer, had 40 years ago let a "young, broke and discouraged'' jobseeker sleep on straw beside a warm boiler. To Muncie's Ball, Moose Davis proffered 25 cents for his night's lodging...
...rich White Russian family, Sculptor Lorochka was born in 1895 in what is now Lithuania. His family sent him to the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Art, where for some time he vacillated between painting, sculpture and architecture. When the War broke, Boris Lovet-Lorski promptly enlisted in the Grodno Hussars, for no other reason than that he liked their gaudy uniform. He was wounded twice, hospitalized in Odessa, soon found himself a personal aide-de-camp to Alexander Kerensky. On the rise of the Bolsheviks, "Lorochka" fled Russia as a cello player...