Word: broke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whose cover appeared a photograph of Johnson. "It's all about you!" shouted Magnuson. Reluctantly, Secretary Johnson took the copy, glanced at the cover and frowned. "Is it favorable?" "Very favorable, sir," replied the Congressman. While reporters & cameramen watched, Secretary Johnson, still frowning, riffled the pages, gradually broke into a broad grin (see cut) as he read TIME'S story on the War Department...
Last year Louis R. Chauvenet '41 broke all previous records in wining his subscription. The chief stumbling block in past races has been procuring the all-important signature of the adviser, but Chauvenet browbeat his mentor into swift, unargumentative submission...
After over a week of muggy weather when the humidity stood steadily at 92 percent, the storm broke furiously at about 6 o'clock Wednesday evening, and lasted until 10 o'clock. During that time nothing was spared. Blasts of wind carried branches through the air. Football practice was abandoned when a ten foot strip of board fence came hurtling through the air toward C and D teams and the wooden grandstands retreated nine feet. A chimney fell off Harvard Hall and started the automatic sprinkler which in turn set off the fire alarm and drew three fire engines. Another...
...that James Farrell was obsessed with the dreariness of life in the section where he had grown up. First volume of the new series, A World I Never Made, told of Jim O'Neill, a goodhearted, leather-faced teamster, and his shrill, shapeless, ill-natured wife Lizz. It broke off when the O'Neills collected $1,000 after their son was run over. Written in the same slow tempo as Farrell's earlier works, with characters who were fatuous when they were not brutal, it gave an even more dispiriting picture of a sodden, sullen, sick environment...
...years of novel writing. He had been an oyster pirate in San Francisco Bay, a sourdough in Alaska, a sailor, barber, patrolman, tramp, marcher in Coxey's Army, when at 23 his stones won national attention. Thereafter his life settled to its pattern: he was always broke, although he made a lot of money; he was always successful, always in trouble with women. Robbed right and left (he lent $50,000 to friends, could collect only $50 when in need), he sank $34,000 in his ill-fated yawl, the Snark, and lost $70,000 when a great house...