Word: broke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after Repeal spoiled a fine livelihood for him, was reputed to be on a $10,000,000 scale. When Rumania threw him out this year, he was seized in Greece, extradited to the U. S. Last week in Federal court, Manhattan, Yasha Katzenberg ceased being a menace. He broke down and begged Judge Henry W. Goddard for mercy. Judge Goddard gave him ten years, $10,000 fine. To John McAdams, a Customs sergeant through whom Katzenberg used to pass huge shipments of dope into New York, the same judge last fortnight gave seven years for bribe-taking...
When the Republican National Committee met in Washington last week, it was like a family gathering which has just heard that old Uncle Bim didn't die broke after all. The election, the new seats in Congress, the squad of new Republican Governors, the startling proof that the New Deal is not immortal, made all the ladies & gentlemen feel downright festive. And then into their midst rushed a chunky, rufous young man from New York and almost spoiled...
...angry mob, forming spontaneously, serpentined through the narrow streets shouting "Down with Italy!" and "Long Live France!" Forcing stray Italians caught in the crowd to remove their Fascist insignia, the paraders wrecked an Italian bookstore, flinging newspapers and books into the streets, raided the offices of the Italian Line, broke into the plant of the Italian newsorgan Fascista Unione. Reinforced police squads narrowly prevented a mob attack on the Italian Consulate, while an Arab anti-Italian demonstration before the Consulate was averted only by strong, official, French persuasion...
NORMAN, Okla.--Dissatisfaction with the status of football at Oklahoma Aggies college broke out anew here as Joe Scott, president of the state board of agriculture, proposed that 12 prize bulls be bought rather than replace Ted Cox, who resigned as head football coach...
...since the days of Awake and Sing! Odets and the Group have marched forward hand in hand. Actually Odets has most of the time carried the Group on his back. His have been the Group's only recent successful plays. When Paradise Lost was choking to death, Odets broke his pledge about not succumbing to Hollywood, went there at $2,500 a week, sent back money to keep the play and the Group going. Again, in the summer of 1937. when the Group existed in name only-its leading actors and its one remaining director were all in Hollywood...