Word: broke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proposal* shocking to many a U. S. educator: that humanity should be told that it is sometimes a duty, for the sake of human progress, to commit crime. Children, said he also, should learn that it is sometimes necessary to defy their parents. His thesis: if nobody ever broke a bad law, mankind would eventually get into a rut, sink back into savagery...
...Tipster Toole tells it, his horse-picking career began when he went broke in 1929. His explanation: "I had played the horses a lot. I decided to get it back where I lost it." Although last week of his 500 choices in 185 races, 248 finished in the money, he claims no wizardry for Willie Winn, says he takes a bottle of bourbon and a racing form, goes through both simultaneously...
...Back in 1913, a young undertaker named John A. Maxwell played golf with two companions on the Raritan Valley Country Club course, Somerville, N. J. As they approached the tenth green, a thunderstorm broke. A forked tongue of lightning licked the fairway, kicked all three players on to their backs, ripped one golf bag down the middle. None of the players was injured. Last week, on the same fairway of the same golf course, in the corresponding week of the corresponding month, at the same time of day (about 3:15 p.m.) Golfer Maxwell was struck down and killed...
...Haven, Conn., Benjamin Polaski, 28, fresh from a jail sentence for breaking into a woman's bedroom, broke into the bedroom of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Winchell (no kin to Columnist Winchell), slipped his shoes under one of the twin beds, slipped himself into the bed in which Mrs. Winchell was already sleeping, himself slipped off to sleep. Later Mrs. Wrinchell awoke, lit a match for a cigaret, saw Polaski, screamed. Next day Polaski was sentenced to 60 days, fined...
...year as active partner in Dingfelder & Balish, Manhattan onion and potato jobbing firm. Claiming he was U. S. "Onion King," Ben Balish last year bought out his partner, quiet, wealthy Carl I. Dingfelder (TIME, Oct. 18). Last fortnight, the 42-year-old Onion King declared himself broke, asked permission to reorganize Benjamin Balish Co., Inc. under Section 776 of the Federal Bankruptcy...