Word: broking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days of jumping on a streetcar and going down to a fire on Elm Street are not passed yet for newspaper reporters, but reporters nowadays have to be equipped for many other jobs as well. Two news stories that "broke" last week show the emergencies with which reporters have to cope...
...Page was unsympathetic in enforcing U. S. rights as a neutral when Britain broke international law by going to extremes in her blockade of Germany. He fought with Lansing who tried to insist on American rights. He even gave Britain a hint to have a U. S. vessel seized by the French in order to ease up Anglo-American tension...
...Parliament reassembled at Teheran after the summer recess. Promptly members broke into fist fighting and riots. The trouble started when a member of the minority party was offered the post of Minister of Justice...
...silhouette (it was that of a lean youth in golf clothes, carrying a club in his hand) that would itself have caused alarm. But instead of the measured stride of the golfer, this youth employed a furious, irregular lope. Suddenly, without a waggle, in a pause that hardly broke his stride, his club described an invisible arc; several seconds afterward, pushing its path through the lucent walls of summer air, the sound of his spoon-shot reached the two old men. The youth, running as hard as he could, disappeared behind the hill; reemerged, a short time after, upon another...
...partly owned by Albert Bacon Fall, then Senator from New Mexico. Mr. Fall looked up Magee's record in Tulsa and found that he was "regular" and financially reliable. So Magee bought, Fall telling him that he was glad to get the money since he was about broke. Soon Magee began to expose corruption in New Mexican politics. Fall came to his office and demanded that Magee quit his attacks. Magee went on. One day Senator Bursum, then "on the outs" with Fall came into Magee's office and said in effect: "You have a loan...