Word: broking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long suits as possible, for the more units of each suit a player holds the more the banker has to pay for each unit. (For one Brickyard a player can get $10; for two yards, $40.) When the banker buys up all the cards without being "broke." the standing of the players is determined by the amount of the notes they hold in return for the cards, or units of industry, they have sold. The game is obviously mathematical and with a strong poker element. A player may have one Coal Mine card, for instance, which, if sold to another...
...years a silent nervous crowd waited patiently by the palace gates. In the city sleepless radio announcers stood by their microphones. A watchman in Tokyo's chief fire station was ready with hand on the siren cord. At 6:15, just as the full force of the storm broke against the palace walls, lights suddenly appeared. A uniformed aid scurried from a side door across a sanded driveway to a temporary booth where reporters waited. Excited watchers whispered to each other that it had come. Another child was born to the Empress Nagako. Would it be a boy? Would...
Monte Blue, cinemactor, "on location" at Laguna Beach, Calif., toppled off a raft broke three ribs...
...scrimmage today between the A and B outfits D. T. Finlayson '33, first string tackle, broke his ankle. Finlayson was in the act of breaking through the line when he sustained the injury, which is serious enough to keep him out of the lineup for at least five weeks. He is a brother of Murdock Finlayson '32, giant lineman of last year's Freshman team. Francisco will probably take Finlayson's place in the game tomorrow...
George Ade, humorist (Fables in Slang), rose dripping from his bath tub to answer his telephone at his summer home near Brook, Ind. He skidded, crashed, skittered down the stairs, broke his left...