Word: broking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crowd!" He took a metal-covered sphere from his pocket; threw it; threw two more; gray gas sidled into the dusk. Tear bombs! . . . More bells, more hooting. A fire engine. Another. Enormous silver rods of water battered the hatless women, the men who had no overcoats. The crowd eddied, broke, swirled down the street. Policemen dashed after, clubbing backs, heads, shoulders...
...ended the extraordinary scene on the first day of the war in Passaic. Nobody knew what had occasioned it. The strikers had not been disorderly. They had sound legal right to march down Dayton Street, provided they broke no windows, gave vent to no loud jeering at Bomber Zober. But although the sound of that human surf, following the chief's experiments with tear gas, had begun to be ominous, the crowd of some 3,000 persons that milled around at Highland and Dayton Avenues on the following afternoon paid very little attention to the 35 patrolmen who were watching...
...with five baskets and who played a strong defensive game, counted with a short shot after a fast play which carried the ball under the basket. Immediately after this the Crimson guard counted again, when he tipped the ball in after Leekley had missed a foul throw. The losers broke into the scoring column on the next play when Reed, the speedy Brown right forward found the strings with a shot from near the center of the floor. Danzell, the Bear tip-off man, scored the next basket with a spectacular one-handed shot from the side of the floor...
Down in the front of the orchestra with his daughter Florence sat Mr. Talley. Genial, gentle, a little embarrassed, he radiated satisfaction. After the second act he (a professional telegrapher) found his way back stage, broke into his first vacation" in 18 years to click off an Associated Press despatch on an improvised apparatus: "THE THINGS THAT THE TALLEY FAMILY HAVE BEEN DREAMING OF FOR 15 YEARS HAVE COME TRUE STOP OUR LITTLE GIRL IS SINGING TO THE WORLD AS WE ALWAYS THOUGHT SHE COULD SOMETIME DO AND WOULD DO CHARLES M. TALLEY...
...University swordsmen were defeated by the fencers of the J. Sanford Saltus Club of New York on Saturday in their first defeat of the season by a 7 to 6 score. The foils event went to the Saltus Club by a 5 to 4 decision, while the two teams broke even in the epee contest...