Word: broking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Order prevailed while the graduating class was photographed, but scarcely had the Seniors moved down from the steps than the first year bombardment broke loose. Amid an intermittent rain of small coins there flew in profusion, oranges, tomatoes and lemons from the 1929 ranks and then, after a few moments of Senior forbearance, back again. For 20 minutes the exchange of fruit and other missiles continued ,broken only by a brief Senior charge which sent the Freshmen tumbling back upon each other. The victorious battlers, however, withdrew to their former position to continue the begging and then the first...
...gone for even a pinch hitter to do any good, the Second team mentor allowed Puffer to take his turn at bat, though at the time two were out and the bases were groaning with impatient Crimson runners. With things thus left up to himself. Puffer broke all pitching precepts by hitting one of the longest home runs ever seen on Soldiers Field. Final score: Yale Seconds 6, Harvard Seconds...
...Sahara, at Hoggar, a band of French and Americans? "Count" Byron Kuhn de Prorok,* Algerian officials, and Trustee W. Bradley Tyrrell of Beloit College (Wis.)?broke into the reputed tomb of Tin Hinan, semi-legendary queen and goddess of the white race of Tuaregs (Berbers). In the crumbling frame of a carved wooden couch lay the six-foot skeleton of a personage, seemingly female, littered with beads, carbuncles, garnets, gold and silver objects, glass balls, with black and yellow designs like eyes. On the arm bones hung massive bracelets?eight on the right, seven on the left?of gold...
Beau Gallant. The author of this fable attempted to glorify the American gentleman. He chose a type of Gentleman that is dying out. His hero is a man who will not work and who tries to make an Art out of clothes, cuisine and calling cards. He goes broke and is terribly insulted by sheriffs and by well meaning friends who try to lend him money. In the background hovers, inevitably, a girl, to say nothing of a rich uncle from South America. Lionel Atwill does his very best to make a silk purse out of a stuffed shirt...
...worry lingered in the minds of the Kronks. Where was the baby? "He's up there," cried Mrs. Harold Messinger, 75-year-old grandmother of Harold Kronk, great-grandmother of the missing baby, pointing to a window through which the smoke streamed in livid grey-green waves. She broke the restraining grasp of the firemen, of Mr. and Mrs. Kronk, dashed up the cinder-hot stairs, bent over the baby's crib. Smoke made her eyes dazzle. She could see nothing in the crib. Was it possible that the baby had been carried out after all? Heat licked...