Word: broke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dignified Sun broke out with a series of poker-faced articles on WPA Polo: What It Costs To Play ("a moderately good polo pony can be bought for less than $7,500"). Sculptor Jack Lambert offered a bederbied trophy for a politicians' polo tournament. Reporters pestered Park Board President Frank Durkee by asking whether WPA would supply ponies and stabling...
...Governor as candidate of Father Coughlin's Union Party. His reappearance this year as a Townsend Planner had definite nuisance value to both Candidate Curley and Candidate Saltonstall, but most for the latter. After their deal last week the blue-blood candidate and the old age promoter broke bread together like old frineds friends. In its latest form, the Townsend Plan proposes Federal pensions, up to a maximum of $200 per month, for all persons 60 or over...
...Pioneers broke a long string of unbroken losses when Davy Jones crossed the goal line late in the second period and a moment later added the extra point on a flat pass to Lynn Pratt. The score came after a march beginning after the third period was half over...
...many respects of detail, Munich was milder than Godesberg. On the question of time, which was actually the point on which war nearly broke out last week, Hitler had demanded 12,000 square miles by October 1. He got 300 square miles on October 1 (see p. 18) and is to get a total of 10,000 square miles progressively by October 10. Moreover, plebiscites will now be held under an international commission of five set up by the Big Four, consisting of one Czech, one Briton, one Frenchman, one German and one Italian-thus weighted...
...past the restraining pickets, Father Simon remained in his rectory. Then, one day last week, a party of 60 Catholics, some local and some from nearby towns, drove up to St. Barbara's to spring the trap. They man-handled the pickets out of the way, broke open the rectory's locked door, took possession of it and the church. Father Simon emerged, coatless, collarless. Once outside, he made no move to leave for his appointed post in Wisconsin. Instead, he joined the pickets...