Word: broking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...couldn't stand for killing innocent people. . . . Agents are frightened when they go out on the job. They are imbued with the idea that they are going into battle. . . . Recently after Washington officials were in Detroit, our chief told us they were sore because so many motor boats broke down and said some of the boys must be 'on the take' [accepting bribes]. I know the boats broke down because the men running them were in experienced...
This letter is to report an incident which happened in this town not long ago of a woman whose telephone rang at three o'clock in the morning. She fell down stairs and broke her leg. Another member of the family answered the telephone and was informed that the party had the wrong number. This woman did not thank the telephone operator...
...Georgians in 1925 broke into an insane asylum, lynched a demented Negro who had killed his nurse...
...Foreign Legion contains no more romantic figure than General Freydenberg, swagger, redhaired, theatrically handsome. For 20 years he was a cloistered monk. Wearying of the religious life he broke his vows and joined the army. It is often said that none but a Frenchman can hope to rise above the rank of Captain in the Foreign Legion. But it is also true that one need not explain all one's antecedents to the Legion. Anything but French in appearance, red-thatched Freydenberg nevertheless had such Gallic dash that he became Major, Colonel, and after the Moroccan campaign...
After several weeks of andestine activity, of squinting through mysterious instruments, of drilling small holes and carting away surreptitiously small trees and flower bushes the authorities that be, last Monday, can out into the open lifted their veil secrecy, and broke ground for the Ne Houses. There was no fanfare of trumpets no cutting of silver ribbons or leaking of ginger-ale bottles President Lowell was not even at hand to be photographed turning over the first sod with a silver spade. It was a very business-like affair. A steam shoved appeared on the scene planted itself...