Word: broking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wing broke...
Fraternizing. Darkness came and the camp fires gleamed upon the field. When dawn broke, several divisions of Republican regulars were discovered in Lumber Wood. Brigadiers McNary and Steiwer of Oregon with other western Republican officers -Johnson of California among them -were gathered in conclave. The Republican high command had decided that lumber and shingles should go on the free list, abandoned to the enemy. Unwilling that this should happen because of sentiment at home, the Westerners urged formation of a western bloc, talked of getting 13 Republican brigades to defend the wood, hoped to induce six western Democratic brigadiers...
Soon Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe came to stand for long minutes looking down at the man he had often called his most valuable assistant. M. le Prefect is a Corsican, slick and hard, but his voice broke as he turned to M. Benoit, grimvisaged Chief of the Surete General (Secret Service). "You tell his wife, Benoit," said Corsican Chiappe, "I can-not-the five poor little ones...
...murder and rape. Infuriated, they threatened to whitewash the walls. Students mobbed the building, stoned and scratched the murals. Finally the Minister of Education was petitioned to stop the havoc. This he did by asking the painters to "make no more targets for mischievous boys." Discouraged, the syndicate broke up, the painters fled to quieter places. But the seed of a national tradition in art had been sown. Following were the sowers...
Wounded War veteran . . . broke . . . robs store . . . is sentenced to serve six to ten years in a Georgia chain gang . . . escapes . . . reforms . . . becomes successful Chicago magazine editor ... is forced to marry a woman 14 years his senior for fear she will betray him ... is betrayed by her because of jealousy over a younger, prettier woman...