Word: broking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vacant Senate cloak room. Four tellers-California's Shortridge and Utah's King for the Senate; Alabama's Jeffers and Massachusetts' Gifford for the House-ranged themselves importantly before the rostrum. The boxes were unlocked. To Mr. Jeffers was handed the first envelope. He broke the red registry seal and announced...
...Anyone who sells a bear on the United States will go broke...
...collie victory broke a reign of terriers, which had lasted since 1922. To win first place Laund Loyalty had to be judged best collie, best working dog, best brace (teamed with Bellhaven Stronghold II) and best team (with Bellhaven Stronghold II, Bellhaven Brilliancy and Laund Lindbergh of Bellhaven). Second-best-dog was Eden Aristocrat of Wildoaks, a wire-haired fox terrier owned by Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Bondy, of Golden-bridge, N. Y. Third was Herewithem J. P., a pointer, owned by Robert F. Maloney of Pittsburgh; fourth, King Pippin of Greystones, a Pekingese owned by Mrs. C. Hager...
...Harvard broke into the scoring column in the opening period when Cross poked in a pass from Garrison at 7.30. Goodman was constantly kept on the jump by a barrage of shots and finally Giddens drove one by him to end the first period scoring...
...generations. But, repeated the lady, times and literary tastes and values have so completely changed! And how is one to know today if an author will endure? With the Brontes and Dickens and Browning and Thackeray and Smollett and Sterne and Fielding it was an easy matter. They rarely broke off sharply with the traditions of their day, said the lady. I did not agree with this but I admitted her problem. And it seemed to me that a solution was not too difficult...