Word: broking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris. Therefore Manhattan's Times sent suave Scot MacDonald from France to the U. S. on the same warboat that carried the Colonel home. Last week Mr. MacDonald, long since back in Paris, was strolling down the Rue de la Paix when the biggest French story of the week broke before his eyes...
...place. Within 30 minutes 2,000 police and volunteers were delving and tunneling into the ruins. Meanwhile frenzied wives and mothers of the buried workmen arrived screaming, and had to be fought off to a distance by a second hastily assembled corps of police and soldiers. Several women, disheveled, broke through police lines and rushed among the ruins, calling to their buried sons or husbands, clawing and tugging at huge, immobile blocks of cement...
...went over to the Nationalists as Generalissimo Chiang's armies approached. Largely by such means and with very little fighting the Southern half of China was absorbed by Nationalism in barely two months! (TIME, Oct. 18, 1926). Not long after this staggering initial success, shrewd Chiang Kai-shek broke absolutely with the Soviet backers of the Nationalist Revolution, and today no man is oftener reviled and burned in effigy at Moscow than he ? except perhaps Great Britain's gaunt, bemonocled Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain...
...Archbishop, then to Henry VIII. Orlando scribbled five-act tragedies, a dozen histories, a score of sonnets, until the Queen summoned him to Whitehall. Chains of office, jewelled Garter, sad embassy to the Queen of Scots, but from the bitter Polish Wars Elizabeth detained her darling. Her old heart broke when in a mirror she watched him make merry with a court wanton...
...story. The end runs and off-tackle plays worked for from five to ten yards quite consistently, and it was only when the interferers missed their assignments, a thing to be expected occasionally at such an early date, that Sapp, and Schwartz, playing a stellar game for the Tarheels, broke through and nailed the play before it got underway. Particularly encouraging was the way in which the Harvard forward passing game was working...