Word: broking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...understood that yesterday's developments were brought to their culmination only by the action of the Lampoon itself. The attitude of the University towards the Lampoon, it was learned, was one of indifferent quiescence as long as the Lampoon held to innocuous humor, but when the straw that broke the camel's back, in the form of Lampy's most recent indiscretions entered the situation, the college authorities reached the conclusion that, foreclosure of the mortgage was the only action compatible with Harvard dignity...
...life of modern Italy. As a professor in the University of Florence he became involved in politics serving as a Deputy of the Progressive School. Although at the outset he was in sympathy with the Fascist movement, and one of the leading contributors to Mussolini's journals, he gradually broke away from the new party, until after the institution of the repressive system of Mussolini, he became a vigorous opponent of the new government...
...dawn the old German Imperial standard broke out from the flagstaff of House Doorn. As the morning advanced, Burgo master Baron Schimmelpenninck van der Roye arrived with a Dutch choir, proceeded to the Orangerie and staged a birthday serenade to Wilhelm II, 70. Clad in black fur-lined coat and astrakhan cap Wilhelm of Doom listened, seemed to especially enjoy a folk song called "The Bold Spinster." After thanking the choir and the Burgomaster Baron, he alluded to his famed hobby thus...
John Davison Rockefeller Jr., 55, is 5 ft, 10 in. tall, weighs 170 Ibs., and has six children. As a youngster he broke stone and split wood on his father's estate in Cleveland for 15¢ an hour, also earned 5¢ an hour for practicing on the violin. Now he keeps in condition by playing squash and using gymnasium apparatus. He is one of the quietest men in the public...
Eventually some of the "little fellows" broke away, started a central cleaning establishment of their own, provoked a racket war featured by the introduction of caustic soda containing sodium nitrate in the seams and lapels of garments which, when cleaned, exploded. Then the main racket organization found itself with another war?this time with a prominent dyer and cleaner whom the association had forced out of business. This cleaner, one Morris Becker, opened up again with a new partner. The partner was famed Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, expert in bootlegging and other rackets. Partner Capone has many good friends...