Word: broken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obliged to go our separate ways. If the Serbs go left, we must go right. If they go right, we left. If war comes-we will then have no alternative but to go on the other side. . . . The clique in Belgrade . . . would sooner see Yugoslavia broken up and Serbia a small Balkan State again than share with us the dictatorial powers they have usurped. The tragedy of all absolute rulers is that they are in blinkers...
...correspondents could confidently guess the main topics of the Führer's talk. But they had a lot to talk about-Hungary, where Nazi economic dominance has steadily increased; Yugoslavia, where negotiations between Croats and Serbs were broken off, whose Premier made a mysterious flight to Italy; Spain, where General Franco set up a new Cabinet; Italy, where economic conditions were reported increasingly bad and where some mysterious reversal upset the maneuvers of the Army of the Po; The Netherlands, shaken with political crises, a far-reaching bank failure, and alarmed for her Pacific Empire; Russia, where...
...student at The Bronx Public School 44, he made the track team by learning to jump the gun without detection. After he won a shorthand championship with a broken finger by ingeniously sticking his pen through a potato, he became a demonstrator for the Gregg shorthand system. His specialty was taking notes with both hands from a phonograph chattering 350 words a minute. This inhuman proficiency took him to Washington, aged 18, as organizer of the stenographic force for Bernard Baruch's War Industries Board, where he had occasion to record the thoughts of such dignitaries...
...colt he had bought as a yearling for $3,250. Outstanding two-year-old of 1938, Little Pete, who wears his forelock ribbon-braided like a pickaninny's, has been undefeated in five races this year (he has not lost a heat or once broken his stride, even in scoring). Winner of $47,000 so far this year, and entered in six more rich stakes, he may well become the biggest money-winning three-year-old of all time before the season ends in September...
...with his nonfictional offspring Freeman, proved that not even a hurricane can stop him from writing about Cape Cod, used the big blow of 1938 merely as curtain raiser for The Ownley Inn. Before the final curtain, when the stolen New England Primer (value: $60,000) is recovered, and broken-nosed Puss Clarke makes up with his ex-fiancée, a full cast of summer folk and Down East worthies have sauntered across the stage...